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LOS ANGELES--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. (NYSE: HPP) today revised its full-year 2017 FFO guidance to a range of $1.90 to $2.00 per diluted share, excluding specified items, compared to the prior full-year 2017 FFO guidance range of $1.93 to $2.03 per diluted share, excluding specified items.
Hudson Pacific recently completed the public offering of 9,775,000 shares of common stock for net proceeds, after deducting underwriting discounts and before other transaction costs, of approximately $337.8 million. The company contributed net proceeds from the offering to its operating partnership, which will use the net proceeds to fund identified and potential future acquisitions, to repay amounts outstanding under its unsecured revolving credit facility and/or for general corporate purposes. Hudson Pacific immediately used a portion of the net proceeds to fully repay the $255.0 million balance outstanding under its unsecured revolving credit facility. To the extent necessary, the company will redraw amounts under that facility to complete the pending acquisition of Hollywood Center Studios, which it anticipates closing on May 1, 2017.
This guidance reflects the issuance of 9,775,000 shares of common stock and the uses of net proceeds as described in this release. As with the company's prior guidance, this revised guidance reflects the impact of the February 14, 2017 sale of 222 Kearny Street for $51.8 million before credits, prorations and closing costs, and the anticipated sale of 3402 Pico Boulevard in late March for $35.0 million before credits, prorations and closing costs. This guidance also assumes full year 2017 weighted average fully diluted common stock/units of 156,552,000, including shares of unvested restricted stock and estimated potential stock grants under the company's outperformance programs. As is always the case, the full-year 2017 FFO estimate reflects management's view of current and future market conditions, including assumptions with respect to rental rates, occupancy levels and the earnings impact of events referenced in this and other press releases, but otherwise excludes any impact from future unannounced or speculative acquisitions, dispositions, debt financings or repayments, recapitalizations, capital market activity or similar matters.
Hudson Pacific does not provide a reconciliation for non-GAAP estimates on a forward-looking basis, including the information regarding the company's "2017 Outlook" above, where it is unable to provide a meaningful or accurate calculation or estimation of reconciling items and the information is not available without unreasonable effort. This is due to the inherent difficulty of forecasting the timing and/or amount of various items that would impact net income attributable to common stockholders per diluted share, the most directly comparable forward-looking GAAP financial measure, including, for example, acquisition costs and other non-core items that have not yet occurred, are out of the company's control and/or cannot be reasonably predicted. For the same reasons, Hudson Pacific is unable to address the probable significance of the unavailable information. Forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures provided without the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures may vary materially from the corresponding GAAP financial measures.
About Hudson Pacific Properties
Hudson Pacific Properties is a vertically integrated real estate company focused on acquiring, repositioning, developing and operating high quality office and state-of-the-art media and entertainment properties in select West Coast markets. Hudson Pacific invests across the risk-return spectrum, favoring opportunities where it can employ leasing, capital investment and management expertise to create additional value. Founded in 2006 as Hudson Capital, the company went public in 2010, electing to be taxed as a real estate investment trust. Through the years, Hudson Pacific has strategically assembled a portfolio totaling over 17 million square feet, including land for development, in high growth, high-barrier-to-entry submarkets throughout Northern and Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. The company is a leading provider of design-forward, next-generation workspaces for a variety of tenants, with a focus on Fortune 500 and leading growth companies, many in the technology, media and entertainment sectors. As a long-term owner, Hudson Pacific prioritizes tenant satisfaction and retention, providing highly customized build-outs and working proactively to accommodate tenants' growth. Hudson Pacific trades as a component of the Russell 2000® and the Russell 3000® indices. For more information visit HudsonPacificProperties.com.
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What to Pack on a Cruise to Europe
Traveling light can pose a particular challenge when you're heading for the seas. You won't have as much space in the cabin for bulky luggage, but you'll also need outfits for a range of temperatures and locations. When cruising in Europe, prepare for varied ports of call by planning around your specific cruise itinerary and paring down to the essentials.
You'll need the same basics for cruising as for any type of travel: appropriate clothing and footwear, toiletries, medications and entertainments such as books or a camera. For a European cruise, where the ports-of-call often involve long walking tours, supportive shoes are essential. Bring a second pair of sandals along, too, if you're looking to do sunbathing on deck. Check whether your cruise's restaurant is formal; if so, pack accordingly. To keep your suitcase light, focus on pieces that adapt to both formal and informal situations, such as a cardigan to dress up a simple shift dress or nicer shoes to dress up a pair of jeans. The camera ranks high among the most prized possessions for most tourists. Bring multiple memory cards and a charger, as well.
Cultural Needs
Depending on where your cruise stops, you may need dramatically different gear. If you're stopping at cities with interesting cathedrals and other places of worship, pack conservative clothing and possibly a lightweight jacket or shawl that you can wear to cover bare shoulders. Packing guide books or foreign language dictionaries for multiple destinations can take up a lot of space. Instead, photocopy important pages or even tear out the important sections from paperback guide books.
Personal Needs
Some items are at the very top of one traveler's list but don't even make it in the suitcase for someone else. For example, if you're susceptible to sea sickness, pack plenty of medication. Passengers who sleep lightly may benefit from sleep aids such as masks or even medications. For those who can't leave home without their brand of face wash or their particular flavor of toothpaste, it's important to pack ahead. You may not find the same brands in Europe, and you don't want to spend half of your time in Rome searching for dental floss.
Practical Necessities
Some of the most pressing items are the ones we usually use without a second thought. For example, you'll need a plug adapter if your cruise involves any overnight stays in European cities. Bring plenty of euros or a debit card that doesn't charge a fee for international withdrawals. Besides your passport, pack two photocopies of it and of your driver's license and the fronts and backs of your credit cards. Pack one set of copies in your suitcase and leave the other one at home. To keep all your belongings safe, bring a bag that's pickpocket-resistant, with a zipper closure and, preferably, a long strap for wearing across the torso. As a high-security alternative, wear a money belt under your clothing with emergency money, a credit card and your passport.
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Heather McHugh is Pollock Professor of Poetry at the University of Washington, and a core faculty participant in the low-residency MFA at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. Of her many books of translation, poetry, and essays, the most recent are Upgraded to Serious, Glottal Stop (poems of Paul Celan, with co-translator Nikolai Popov), and Broken English: poetry and partiality. She's a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was in 2009 awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. In 2012 she founded the non-profit CAREGIFTED, which supports respite services for long-term full-time family caregivers (http://caregifted.org/).
The author will be available to sign books after the lecture. As always, books will be available for purchase on site.
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A Fresh Shot At Malaria?
Dr. Stephen L. Hoffman is determined to conquer malaria, a scourge many public-health experts call the world's most grievous disease. How determined? On a spring day in 1987, following in the tradition of scientists who put their own health on the line, the Naval Medical Research Institute captain pressed an open carton with five malaria-laden mosquitoes against his arm and waited until they feasted on his blood, infecting him with the parasite. For two weeks, it appeared that an experimental vaccine had protected him from the disease. But then, while giving a presentation at a San Diego conference, Hoffman began to shiver with the uncontrollable shaking chills of malaria. "Unfortunately," he says, "the vaccine failed."
Now, Hoffman is scrambling to get funding for an innovative idea dubbed MustDo (for multi-stage DNA vaccine operation). In papers submitted for publication, he and his colleagues describe promising new vaccine results and report, for the first time, the complete DNA sequence of a malaria chromosome. It's all part of an explosion of new science that could revolutionize "not just malaria vaccine development but the way the biomedical research is done," he enthuses.
Standing in Hoffman's way, however, is the daunting scientific task--along with the West's longstanding apathy toward malaria. The disease's toll is staggering. The parasite slays an estimated 2.7 million people a year worldwide--nearly all in developing countries--and infects some 500 million. Yet spending for malaria research and control totals about $100 million--a pittance compared with, say, the $2.5 billion the National Institutes of Health spend on cancer research.
What's more, the pharmaceutical industry's pipeline is nearly empty of new drugs and vaccines. Mosquito-control efforts are also faltering, and malaria is developing resistance to drugs, meaning they won't be effective much longer.
Now, however, officials are getting more serious about tackling malaria. In May, Gro Harlem Brundtland, the new director-general of the World Health Organization, launched a $20 million plan for cutting deaths in half by 2010. Meanwhile, WHO and industry representatives and others will meet at New York's Rockefeller Foundation on Sept. 17 to consider a plan for foundations and health agencies to fund academic-industry partnerships to develop new drugs.
COMPLEX CYCLE. The growing will to fight the disease couldn't come at a more opportune time. "Malaria has come back with a vengeance," says infectious-disease specialist Philip K. Russell of Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Cases have soared across Africa and Asia. Malaria was the top cause of casualties among U.S. troops in Somalia, despite the military's extensive use of malaria medications. And it has recently struck Americans in New York and tidewater Virginia.
The ideal solution would be a vaccine that prods the immune system to wipe out the parasite. It's a difficult task, partly because the life cycle of the malaria parasite is so complex. The dance of parasite and host begins when an infected mosquito injects a few dozen pointy malaria cells, called sporozoites, into the blood (diagram, page 70). The sporozoites rush to the liver and multiply like mad. By the time the immune system mounts a response, sporozoites in the liver have changed into a new, rounder form called a merozoite. Bursting out of liver cells, the merozoites infect and destroy red blood cells, causing fever, chills, and anemia. Some of these merozoites then become gametocytes--sex cells--which, after being sucked back into another mosquito, eventually give rise to sporozoites that begin the cycle all over again.
Back in 1987, Hoffman and other researchers hoped that a vaccine based on a key sporozoite protein would prod the body to make antibodies against the sporozoite, thus wiping out the parasite. The vaccine's failure taught them that fighting the parasite with antibodies alone is like trying to stop an elephant with a handgun: The antibodies need help from the other part of the immune system--so-called cellular immunity. Hoffman and others have been working with vaccines made of DNA strands that when injected into muscle, help generate an immune response involving killer T-cells. In his forthcoming scientific paper, he and colleagues will report that such a vaccine is safe and does stimulate a T-cell response in humans. Even with that improvement, however, scientists predict that no sporozoite-based vaccine will ever be better than 85% to 90% protective. That's woefully inadequate for Africa and other places where malaria-carrying mosquito bites occur many times a day.
STRUGGLING. In another approach, Louis H. Miller and colleagues at the NIH are fashioning a vaccine using proteins made during the parasite's blood stage. Such a vaccine can't prevent the disease but could lessen its severity. And by including both sporozoite and blood-stage proteins, Hoffman's MustDo vaccine promises to reduce infection rates and to temper any disease that does appear. "I'd like to think that in my career we will develop an effective vaccine," he says. Until that happens, drugs, used for treatment and prevention, are the best way to tame malaria.
With companies having shut down most of their malaria efforts, military and academic labs struggle to fill the void. At the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Colonel Wilbur Milhous heads a team that has devised a new drug now in human trials in Africa and Thailand. "It may be the most significant thing that's happened at this institute in 20 years," Milhous says. At Johns Hopkins, chemist Gary H. Posner has a drug that cures animals. Unfortunately, he can't find a drug company willing to take on its development. And at Harvard University's School of Medicine, tropical medicine specialist Dyann F. Wirth is searching for chemicals that can block a key mechanism the parasite uses to elude chloroquine and other drugs. That way, "we can regain the use of chloroquine," she says.
Malaria research is also about to get a boost from the deciphering of the parasite's DNA. J. Craig Venter, head of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), will soon publish, with Hoffman and his colleagues, the first sequence of one of malaria's 14 chromosomes. It contains more than 200 genes. And the genes code for proteins that contain numerous repeats of the same building blocks, or amino acids--a pattern seen in no other species. Having the full genome will not only offer many more targets for drugs or vaccine possibilities, researchers say, it will also catapult malaria from a backwater area of science to center stage.
But all of this progress will amount to nothing unless industry steps in to carry drug and vaccine candidates from labs to pharmacies. And with a few exceptions, such as SmithKline Beecham PLC's collaborations with Walter Reed, companies aren't willing to spend the bucks.
That's why scientists are desperately seeking strategies to solicit more industry involvement. At a recent meeting of drug CEOs, NIH chief and Nobel laureate Harold E. Varmus challenged them to set aside profits from blockbuster drugs to tackle diseases such as malaria. At Harvard, Wirth is setting up a consortium to get public-sector and industry donations. And Dr. Alain B. Schreiber, CEO of biotech company Vical, which holds key patents on DNA vaccine technology, surprised his staff by agreeing to supply Hoffman with enough of his MustDo DNA vaccine for clinical trials. "Malaria is a wonderful setting to test the technology," explains Schreiber.
The most ambitious effort, however, is being led by Trevor M. Jones, director general of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, and Winston E. Gutteridge of the WHO. They've devised a plan for companies to collaborate with academic labs on projects funded with $15 million to $30 million a year from foundations and agencies. "I've felt a sense of despair as to whether we could find the right mechanism," says Jones. "But I now feel this will lead to actual drug hunting." If the cash does materialize at the Sept. 17 meeting, then there's a glimmer of hope that malaria can finally be conquered.
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'Beauty and the Beast' season 2 spoilers: What familiar face is coming back?
Obviously, you are waiting for quite a while for more "Beauty and the Beast" episodes. Summer is a long ways away, and it also means a lot of different things. For example, it could mean August just as much as it means June. Either way, the implication is the same: You're going to be waiting for a little while to find out more information about the show.
So with that in mind, how about a little more news on what is coming up in order to make the wait a little easier? According to a new report from E! News, you are going to be getting an appearance moving forward from none other than Nicole Anderson as Heather, Cat's sister who has been away for a little while. What could this appearance bring? That is the part of the equation that is still a little bit left out, at least save for the following: The character could be involved in Gabe's revenge plan for Vincent.
Can you believe that Gabe could do something more to this character than we have seen already? It's really not that hard at all to figure out, mostly because Cat really didn't think this through very well that she was going to get together with two characters who do not have the best history in the world with each other. Of course there were going to be problems, and she is now figuring that out the hard way.
Whatever the next few episodes bring, we just hope that it is enough to tie together the show in a way that could serve as a series finale. It's awesome that fans rallied together to win E!'s Save One Show campaign, but it's going to take more than to keep it around. (Last year, the honor went to the now-canceled "Smash.")
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— Bud Selig likes to call himself a student of history.
If so, he's headed for an "F" on this assignment, and he's not alone. Rarely passing up a chance to laud baseball as a force for driving social change, the commissioner and players' union have been quiet far too long about the biggest opportunity looming on the horizon.
That would be MLB's plan to stage the All-Star game, two weeks from now, in Phoenix, where a tough local immigration law means that nearly a third of the players — like many Latinos who call Arizona home — worry that a routine traffic stop could escalate into a humiliating "papers, please" confrontation.
Selig's silence — he didn't return a call for comment Monday — could be the result of several things. To cite the most recent, he's probably spending more time closeted with lawyers these days because of the tug-of-war over the Los Angeles Dodgers and their wily, and increasingly desperate owner, Frank McCourt.
And like just about every politician and civic figure scorched by the white-hot debate over Arizona's SB1070, Selig and the union simply may be laying low in hopes the courts will make it a moot issue before they have to take a stand. They may get their wish, but perhaps not soon enough.
The law requires immigrants to carry their registration documents and police who are enforcing other laws to question the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally. A judge blocked enforcement of the law's most controversial requirements, but allowed other parts to take effect, such as a ban on obstructing traffic while seeking or offering day-labor services on streets.
A federal court already has blocked the most onerous portions of the law from being enforced — the so-called "papers, please" provision — while it considers the measure's constitutionality. Final say on the matter will almost certainly come down from the Supreme Court, long after MLB's All-Star circus packs up and moves on.
Already, a coalition of pro-immigration groups calling itself "Unite AZ" has announced plans to call attention to the year-old law, beginning with a news conference Tuesday outside Chase Park in Phoenix, and a call for baseball fans and players to wear white ribbons.
"We've asked MLB and the unions for cooperation, but we always knew we had an uphill battle," said Luis Avila, a spokesman for Unite AZ. "We have some players interested, but we can't give the names yet. Hopefully, we will be able to announce those within the next week."
MLBPA spokesman Greg Bouris said in a telephone interview that the union had not seen a request from Unite AZ and had no plans to respond to such requests.
"Our position on the law hasn't changed. We oppose it as written and that won't change until the courts decide what the law is," he said. "But we think the All-Star game is a chance to celebrate the contribution of all baseball players — including our international players."
Selig, too, has been challenged on the issue several times before, most notably when the Arizona legislature approved SB1070 some 16 months ago, and then a month later at a news conference after an owners' meeting in New York.
His response was to cite the "A" grade that MLB was given in the annual report from the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports. He also managed to mention a lifetime achievement award he received from the Jackie Robinson Foundation.
"Apparently all the people around and in minority communities think we're doing OK. That's the issue, and that's the answer," he said. "I told the clubs today: 'Be proud of what we've done.' They are. We should. And that's our answer. We control our own fate, and we've done very well."
By some measures, absolutely.
Baseball's on-the-field work force is about 30 percent Latino and the diversity in front offices matches or betters what its rival sports leagues can boast. Under Selig's stewardship, MLB has also made significant outreach efforts, from funding youth baseball efforts in the inner cities to an annual celebration of Jackie Robinson's groundbreaking major league debut.
To be sure, this is not just Selig's fight. It's the union's fight, too, but unfortunately it's too late for big gestures along the lines of what the NFL and its players did when confronted with a similar situation nearly two decades ago.
When Arizona refused to honor Martin Luther King Day, the league voted to take the 1993 Super Bowl out of the state and moved it to the Rose Bowl. When voters in the state began toting up the loss of millions of dollars, they reversed course and backed the holiday in plenty of time for the NFL to bring the 1996 Super Bowl to Tempe.
"Asking people to wear white ribbons is a small step," Avila said. "We know that. We thought holding the game here was a bad decision from the start. Now that it's here, we hope it will provide a platform to discuss the overheated rhetoric and the real harm it's causing, like the separation of families.
"It would be nice," he said finally, "to get some help."
Don't count on it.
Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jlitke(at)ap.org


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Upcoming Events in February in Killeen
February is going to be one happening month in Killeen, Texas. There's plenty for everyone. Couples can have a gala time at Valentine's themed events. Aspiring entrepreneurs and startup founders can attend a plethora of motivational and business events. There's enough recreation for kids and the movie buffs or music lovers rarely have a dull month. The onset of spring is one of the most pleasant times of the year and Killeen is going the make the most of it.
- On 1st February, you could hone your skills with Microsoft Excel Training that starts at 10 a.m. On 4th you could take your family to City of Killeen Family Recreation Center. There's Killeen Ladies Light Up the Dark at Vive Les Arts Theatre on 6th Feb at 6:00 PM. The same day, you could attend Pink Goes Red Fun Run from 8 a.m. at Lion's Club Park.
- On 7th February, there's Central Texas Bridal Extravaganza from 11 a.m. and on 11th you could attend Starting a Small Business 101 at 4100 S Clear Creek Rd. There's Heart Health Fair on 20th February from 10 a.m. at Killeen Arts & Activities Center.
- February has some extremely helpful events for everyone looking for a new opportunity, some guidance on a new business or those who just want to toy with some new ideas. There's Become an Oratory Pro on 19th February from 9 a.m., How to Write a Business Plan on 18th February from 6:30 p.m. at 4100 S Clear Creek Rd, How to Open a Restaurant or Food Truck on 25th February from 6:30 p.m. at 4100 S Clear Creek Rd, Social Media for Business 101 (not in February but 3rd March) at the same venue and a few other expos to help various trades.
- The highlights of February are events like "FETISH: A Valentine's Ménage à Trois!" on 14th February from 6 p.m. at the Marchesa Hall & Theatre. You may want to rush for the tickets before they get sold out.
Apart from these events, there are the regular farmer markets, health and fitness programs along with quite a few seminars and corporate presentations. But those are pretty much a fixture of every month. Should you be interested in any of the popular events for the month, you should move quickly and grab your tickets. Some are already sold out so you may want to check the availability right now.


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NOTE TO TEACHERSMy initial inspiration for creating Mr. Tucket was to cover the West with a single person. I hate to use the word saga, but it's kind of that. I thought of a boy going through the various aspects of the West when it was forming, starting with the mountain men, to what we view as the West--you know, the West of the cowboys.One of the reasons I think that Francis has become popular is that I think there are similarities between Francis Tucket and Brian in Hatchet. Both boys must deal with a survival situation. I think that the theme of having to face real problems that have happened to real people at one time or another--especially to face them as a young person--is very intriguing to readers, especially young readers. When I was young and I was hunting, I would get into trouble--get caught in storms, blizzards, and that sort of thing. I found those experiences very challenging and intense and I think that feeling comes across in the books.One of the reasons I put Francis in the Mexican War in Tucket's Ride was because the Mexican War has historically been ignored in writing. Historians jump right from mountain men to cowboys and longhorns and topics like that. I wanted to discuss, or at least have something move through, the Mexican War, which was a silly time--an absolutely crazy time--for America because it was an outright war of aggression by America.The reaction I've had from teachers and librarians is that they want more. Some specifically ask to have Francis go to a certain spot and deal with specific historical events. I get quite a bit of mail like that. It would be impossible to have him do everything that teachers want me to have him do. Mr. Tucket couldn't ride enough to cover the territory that needs to be covered, but he will definitely get around. I'm going to do many more of these books.
ABOUT THIS BOOKIn the third book in Gary Paulsen's Tucket Adventures, Francis and his adopted family are heading west, continuing their search for Francis' parents. But when winter comes early, Francis turns south to avoid the cold and leads them right into the middle of the Mexican-American War.
ABOUT THIS AUTHORBorn in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Gary Paulsen is one of America's most popular writers for young people. Although he was never a dedicated student, Paulsen developed a passion for reading at an early age. After a librarian gave him a book to read--along with his own library card--he was hooked. He began spending hours alone in the basement of his apartment building, reading one book after another.Running away from home at the age of fourteen and traveling with a carnival, Gary Paulsen acquired a taste for adventure. A youthful summer of rigorous chores on a farm; jobs as an engineer, construction worker, ranch hand, truck driver, and sailor; and two rounds of the 1,180-mile Alaskan dogsled race, the Iditarod, have provided ample material from which he creates powerful stories.
TEACHING IDEASThe Tucket Adventures offer opportunities for making connections with the subjects areas of geography, history, language arts, the arts, literature, and science. The books also offer opportunities for exploration of themes or topics such as Westward Movement, Caring for the Environment, Survival, and Heroes. You can successfully use any one, two or all three books in your classroom. Sample the suggested classroom connections that follow and offer your students appropriate choices to deepen their understanding and enjoyment of the books.Pre-Reading ActivitiesHave students examine the United States in 1848. Give students a blank map and have them color in only those states and territories that were part of the Union--be sure to include the year and circumstances surrounding each state's admission. (You can break the class into small groups and each group can work on a particular state.) Afterwards, add states that were admitted after 1848 so that students can visually see the Western expansion of the country.Assign students short research projects on the following topics: Western Explorers, the Plains Indians, Wagon Trains, the Oregon Trail, mountain men, California, and the Pony Express. When the students have gathered the information, guide them in creating a mural that features significant episodes in the opening of the West, arranging the events in the form of a time line.Thematic ConnectionsWestward Movement Tucket's Ride leads Francis into the middle of the Mexican-American War. Discuss the war in detail with your class. How did it begin? Why was it so important to the United States? Which territories were won?SurvivalIn Tucket's Ride, Francis is not only responsible for himself, but his adopted family as well. Discuss how his new responsibility effects his behavior and the decisions he makes. Would he have reacted differently to situations if he were alone?Caring for the Environment In Tucket's Ride, Francis and company traveled from the plains to the desert. Discuss with your students the different climates, landscapes and scenery one would encounter on a trip from Missouri to Oregon, with a detour to Texas?HeroesWhat makes Francis feel obligated to take the body of the soldier he shot to the army in Tucket's Ride? Do you feel Francis was justified in shooting the soldier? Ask your students what they might have done in a similar situation.Interdisciplinary ConnectionsHistory Is historical fiction more fact than fiction? Ask students to read a biography of a real-life western hero and compare their life to Francis Tucket's. Refer back to the mural created for Pre-Reading activity. What other significant historical events should be included in the mural? To provide background information, invite students to find out more about events mentioned in the books.Creative Writing Francis Tucket's adventures are ongoing. Encourage your class to create a new adventure for Francis. Where would he go next? What historical event would he get involved in?GeographyKeep a map of the far west on display. Invite students to mark the places where Francis has traveled. Discuss the different topographies as you make your way west and how the land has developed and/or changed since 1848.Science The weather and seasons influenced activities like the trapping of the beavers in Mr. Tucket. Ask students to review the books to discover other adventures that involved the weather and/or the seasons. Invite them to list the ways Francis copes with difficult weather conditions and the signs he notices that indicate the seasons and weather are changing.Use of Language Read aloud the last two sentences in several chapters (i.e. Tucket's Ride, chapters 1,5,9). Discuss why Gary Paulsen ends his chapters on such cliff-hangers. Consider how the writer keeps the reader reading. Ask students to find other examples of cliff-hanger endings.Teaching Ideas prepared by Marilyn Carpenter, education consultant, Tucson, Arizona.
REVIEWS"A real knock'em, sock'em ripsnorter guaranteed to keep any boy and any girl. . . enthralled from first page through last. . . . Superb characterizations, splendidly evoked setting and thrill-a-minute plot make this book a joy to gallop through." -- Starred, Publishers Weekly"[Francis Tucket is] a cool-headed survivor in the mold of Hatchet's protagonist. . . a heart-stopping good read." -- Starred, Publishers Weekly"Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank You!! It is so wonderful to turn kids on to reading with incredible novels like yours. The children truly loved your books and learned a lot about survival and life." -- J.W., Sanford School"Many students have enjoyed your novels and learned valuable lessons from them. I enjoy teaching them for the same reason." -- B.B., Franklin Elementary School"I really enjoyed reading your book, Mr. Tucket. The whole book had an outstanding way of making a picture in my mind. Your characters seemed to come to life. Though I've read a lot of books, Mr. Tucket is one of the best so far."--Angelica, Student
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Ethel is a name we once declared as 'So Far Out They'll Probably Always Be Out,' but with the return of other names on that list and with its new starbaby cred via Lily Allen, its soft sound and admirable meaning, we're not so sure.
At the turn of the last century, when Ethel Barrymore was the belle of Broadway, her first name was wildly popular, a Top 10 name for sixteen year and in the Top 100 until 1939. Other well-known bearers have been musical stars Ethel Merman and Ethel Waters and Robert Kennedy's widow. Not so distinguished: Ethel Mertz on "I Love Lucy".
Ethel fell away from such Old English appellations as Ethelberta, Ethelreda and Ethelinda. Now THOSE, we think we can safely say, are so far out they'll always be out.
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Daily Topic for October 24, 2009
Gideon and his father weren't afraid to challenge the power of the Baals. Great missionaries from various traditions have used power encounters to demonstrate that our God is far more powerful than the false deities. Celtic missionary Patrick demonstrated the powerlessness of the Druids in the 5th century, Roman Catholic missionary Boniface made it clear that Thor could not stop him from cutting down a sacred tree, and Russian Orthodox missionary Permski did similar feats among the animistic Komi people. Has our God changed, or have we changed?
Pray that today's missionaries will demonstrate the power and love of Christ to Nepali Hindus in Bangladesh and Nepal.
Fleeing from harsh conditions at home and going to a foreign country with a different religion has to be one of the most disheartening experiences you could encounter. This was the case with many Hindu Nepalese who fled their homeland in the 1950s. One of their adopted homelands is Muslim Bangladesh. Bangladesh is very poor and overpopulated, so the newcomers probably weren't very welcome.
Most of the Nepalese in Bangladesh are farmers, living in small villages situated near rivers or springs. The better-off Nepalese own their land, and raise wet rice during the monsoon season. They raise dry rice, maize, and wheat in the summer and winter months. Most farmers also raise cows for the family's milk and goats and buffalo for meat. In recent years, because of the poor conditions, many Nepalese have been encouraging their children to move out of the rural areas for jobs in the cities. The Hindu caste structure keeps Nepalese in one of two categories: upper caste landowners and lower caste servants.Learn more at joshuaproject.net
Pray for spiritual breakthrough among the Nepalese in Bangladesh. They live in daily fear of spirits, demons, ghosts, and fairies. This is not God's plan for them. Pray that the spiritual blindness would be removed so they can see Jesus. Pray for evangelistic tools to reach every Nepali village in Bangladesh.-JR


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Texas must keep eye on ball to ensure economic prosperity
Published 8:20 am, Tuesday, September 18, 2012
One of the more rewarding aspects of my professional career is economic development work. For three decades, I and my firm have been analyzing, assessing, recommending and supporting economic growth and prosperity in communities large and small as well as the state as a whole. More than 10 years ago, we prepared the landmark "Texas, Our Texas" report, the statewide economic development plan that forms the basis for legislation strengthening incentive programs. We have been involved in virtually every significant economic development policy initiative and major site selection within the state in recent years.
The fact that Texas weathered the recent national downturn far better than most geographic areas is no accident. Past efforts to encourage quality corporate locations and expansions, economic diversification, and targeted development of emerging industries is one reason for the state's relative stability and resilience. However, given tight budget conditions, state spending has been reduced in a variety of ways. While cuts have been unavoidable in some cases, it is important that such changes are carefully analyzed to ensure they do not jeopardize future prosperity.
Actions which can help Texas maintain its competitive position relative to other areas and otherwise enhance future performance are worthy of consideration (even given the current fiscal challenges). It is essential that a long-term view of economic development be adopted to assure that the state sustains its capacity for future competitiveness, expansion, and prosperity. We have to keep an eye on the ball if we expect to continue to hit homeruns (or singles, doubles, or triples, for that matter).
Economic development is all about building from strengths and maintaining and enhancing competitive advantages. Reasons for Texas' success range from abundant natural resources to a more favorable business climate and presence in key technology-oriented growth industries. A relatively low tax burden and other cost advantages, large workforce, and strong economic development programs give the state the potential to remain a growth leader. However, future prosperity depends on maintaining and enhancing these assets and having the flexibility to adapt economic development policies to remain competitive as the economy evolves.
Texas' strategy over the past decade included identification by the governor of clusters targeted for economic development. Through the concerted efforts of business and community leaders, legislators and many others, Texas has emerged at the forefront of several high-growth industries such as technology, biosciences and health care.
It's not enough to just have a plan and go out recruiting, however; we also have to have the sort of environment where businesses can prosper. Texas faces unique challenges in addition to those facing the nation (such as the ongoing difficulties in Europe and the potential "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year). Much of the essential core of economic development (including dealing with the difficulties the state is confronting) falls heavily within the influence or control of the state government.
One major challenge is educational attainment. Texas already lags many competing states in key measures such as the percentages of residents with associate or higher degrees. High school graduation rates also are lower than the United States as a whole, and a number of competing states rank much higher than Texas.
A highly educated workforce is essential to ensuring Texas remains at the forefront of the growth industries of tomorrow such as technology and biosciences, which require a constant supply of highly educated workers. If this supply is curtailed due to budget cuts, the future capacity of the state to attract and retain these types of industries is also constrained.
Other challenges are the adequacy of key resources such as water and transportation infrastructure. Unless these issues are adequately dealt with, they will dampen future performance. At the same time, the State's tax and other cost advantages should be maintained and enhanced. During tight budget times, doing all of this at once is even harder.
In addition to their role in ensuring fundamental strengths remain intact, State and local governments are also critical to "incremental" economic development. Such measures affect corporate location decisions "at the margin" and often take the form of either explicit marketing efforts aimed at increasing business activity or some type of incentive to encourage locations.
In many cases, overall costs and other key factors are approximately equal across several potential sites, and incentives can spell the difference between Texas making a "short list" and winning. Because such measures involve transferring public resources to private firms in one form or another, incentive programs are often controversial. State policy regarding incentives typically represents a miniscule portion of fiscal resources relative to fundamental functions, but is nonetheless absolutely essential to ultimate success. We may not like incentives in theory, but you can bet other states will be using them to try to lure away corporate locations and expansions.
The Texas Legislature is likely to face tight budgetary conditions for the foreseeable future, and the State will likely be grappling with structural issues from its tax structure and growing population and industrial base for years. Even so, it is crucial to address future challenges before they erode our competitive position. The best way to provide for the Texans of the future is to be sure there is a vibrant and growing economy to offer opportunities as well as tax revenue. Now is not the time to take our eye off the ball!
Dr. M. Ray Perryman is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Perryman Group (www.perrymangroup.com) He also serves as Institute Distinguished Professor of Economic Theory and Method at the International Institute for Advanced Studies.


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Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde (born 1961) is a British novelist.
His first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001.
He is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and has begun two more independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey.
His work is noted for the many literary allusions he includes in his stories.
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The Other Side Nathaniel Manheru
IT has been a good 34 years since our war of liberation ended in victory. There is a whole generation that grew after the war, a whole generation for whom that war is but a series of gripping anecdotes. Or even narratives of critical claims and falsehoods by those against whom the war was launched and fought. I recently dealt with one such impressionable born-free who thought his people's history can be written or retold by Rhodesians and their kith abroad.
He had just discovered one Meredith, celebrating this as a discovery rarer than a mother's virginity. So it is incumbent upon those of us who witnessed the war, more so upon those who fought that war, to share memories of that brutal war that created a beautiful country, a beautiful people, a lovely nation. I just want to deal with one small aspect of that war, all to show that the war and its rich tradition is a veritable resource for defending our revolution, our cause, our quest as a people.
When no two wars are ever the same
Wars do create their own language, their own vocabulary, by which occurrences within, and because of them, are described and become describable. I suppose it is in the nature of all wars to do so, given that no two wars are ever the same, or comparable. Each war produces its own lexicon and lexicography, yes, its own grammar and narrative. Wars are fought differently, in unique spatial and cultural settings, mobilising different people, using different weaponry, employing different tactics for different ends.
Each war spews its own atrocities, moulds its own humanity. The beast in man outs; the tenderness of life tenuously holds, always seeking to restrain and humanises that monster unhinged. Each war invents its villains; paints its heroes. Of course the narrative always belongs to the victors, who need not be winners on the battlefield. Check our own war. The only thing that all wars do, and do without fail, is to create victims. But all this is another matter, another story, for another day. I am not chasing that today.
Texture of great deeds, statements
One key production of our war of liberation was a rich vocabulary that developed around apparatuses of that war, principally the gun that makes all wars. The forces of liberation started with very modest guns. Perepeshas, they were called. Ranged against the Rhodesian firepower, part of it mounted, airborne, that phase of the struggle demonstrated sheer willpower and bravery, even in the face of a ready, certain death. I call it the age of sacrifice, of example.
Rhodesian historiography calls this foolhardiness, forgetting out of those acts of determined desperation would emerge the Chinhoyi Seven we celebrate today. The real story was not the elementary gun; the real story was the brave heart behind it. The deep cause that motivated such acts of bravery. After all it had happened before, back in history. Then it was the maxim gun against home-made guns, spears and even stones and fists.
After all it would happen again. That is why the image of the shot child in arms of an outraged student is what today symbolises the day of the child. The outrage was Soweto, the setting apartheid South Africa. Great deeds, great statements, come from simple acts ranged against formidable power armed with its awesome instruments. That, probably is what Marx meant when he said history is made by ordinary people, never by princes of power. Those only seek to delay it.
Renaming the AK
With time, light-to-heavy weaponry came into play, came the way of force of liberation. Mortars of various sizes, rocket launchers, all to reinforce the basic weapon: AK47. Interestingly, this Russian-designed gun was rarely called by its trade name in that war. It was called, fondly called "Sabhu", as if it was some kind pet meekly and languidly dozing beneath one's half-clad, drooping thighs. And there was a tuneful song sung to its glory: "Ndiani anoenda Muzambique/Kunotora Sabhu yangu/ Nhamba yacho four, double nine, six Muzambiki".
It was an elegy to a deadly gun, but rendered with such bursting animation that one thought it was a prayer to a benign god. Or even to a routine heritage to a grateful receiver, numbered to ensure it reached the intended scion. And the number of the weapon would blend with the melody, would drop down our lips as if we were rehearsing a good, kindly brother's room number somewhere in Old Highfields in those Rhodesian days.
Death had lost its ugliness, its tragic turn, tamed by war's all-encompassing lyrics. From 1977 when the war came to our area, until well into independence, I never knew or called a "mortar 82" by its real name. It was a "morotero"! And you did not have to know it, even to see it. Here was one weapon whose terribleness was sounded by its name. A weapon whose hospitality lay in that it armed those who fought for us. There was a cold hiss of death to it; a possessive, melodious friendliness to it. But it had been tamed, made ours phonetically, alongside the fact that it was clutched by a hand of one of us.
Singing death in war
But the war also domesticated names of exotic weaponry, in the process making the deadly weapons household articles in the home of a struggling people. The war re-familiarised exotic weaponry, deadly weaponry. For me this was the genius of the whole war, the genius of its core, diverse communication acts.
That genius turned an unfamiliar, even sinister instrument of death, into a familiar, even likable article made pliant through verbal stroking, through domesticated re-naming. Professor Pfukwa will relate to this. That same mortar 82 was renamed "duri raambuya Nehanda", or grandma' Nehanda's pounding mortar. Except the pestle was a deadly stubby, prickly rotund projectile which once launched, hissed its deadly message home. Cde Chinx sort of captured it in a line in one of his songs: "Ruzhinji rwaitambudzwa zvikurukuru nemuvengi".
In that song, the struggle is described as a flying projectiles that hisses the song of freedom. It is a deadly understatement in song. Similarly another gun, an LMG (light machine gun) with its pot-like magazine, was renamed "poto yambuya Nehanda", grandma' Nehanda's pot. The renaming of these guns recalled our history and its heroic personages, while gaining our confidence in these articles of death. When you consider that Ian Smith's propaganda was to make war veterans look like mindless terrorists who slaughtered wantonly, this was a veritable mobilisation breakthrough for the guerrilla.
He and his mortal war paraphernalia had become a household name, literally. The landmine was renamed "chimbambaira", the potato, which was a working euphemism for a deadly tool of death and destruction. They give this a different name in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Of course "bazooka" remained "bazooka", its name having been deemed terrible enough to awe the foe, to project a sense of formidableness to friend. It kept its name, keeps it to this day. The Rhodesians did not help matters by putting bounty on each of these weapons.
That action reinforced the bonding between a fighting people and their standing army, its weaponry.
Renaming Rhodesian arsenal
Of course all wars have two antagonistic sides. The same war genius also named and renamed the Rhodesian weaponry. Derogatorily, all to rob the Rhodesian arsenal of its awe. To damn it. You could not have been praising the very gun that was trained against you, trained against your cause, without building a psychosis of fear, impotence and defeat.
Interestingly not a single Rhodesian gun got a vernacular name, or was ever romanced the way weaponry from the East was. Quite the contrary, they all retained their foreign names, in keeping with their desecrable significance as instruments for propping an invading, foreign force. It was not a weaponry that liberated, but one that enslaved. Two weapons stood out from the Rhodesian arsenal.
One was known as "nato", itself Rhodesia's answer to the LMG, or "poto yambuya Nehanda". It leaned on a tripod, something that gave it a crouching stance which raised its sights like a rock gecko, that one with a rough, warted top, a bluish underbelly, and which behaves like it will smash its head on hard rock, maybe in a fake show of strength. So during those war days, "nato"did not refer to a military alliance; it referred to an alien gun that killed "our people", donated to Ian Smith by his western kith and kin, collectively grouped as NATO.
The name of the gun summarised the alliance against our cause, our freedom. It summarized the Rhodesian cause. No Zimbabwean who supported the war can ever get reconciled to NATO, whatever its re-imaging efforts. The other gun was called a "Bren gun", and war legend had it that it had come from some faraway country called "West Germany".
This gave a remarkable contrast, given that East Germany — West Germany's antithesis — was equipping comrades.Those two bad guns gave Rhodesia its war face, a reviled one at that.
Of course the Rhodesian workhorse gun was an FN, which remained denoted by those two alphabetic sounds. To this day, that gun carriers its Rhodesian aspersions, whoever might be carrying it today. That is how powerful war communication and naming was, is. It lasted. It lasts.
One A-least Sparks
The American government is not too pleased that Zimbabwe has turned East. It is riled that Zimbabwe is now attracting investments from China and Russia, especially Russia. Those of us who covered Russian foreign minister Lavlov when he came, would have picked a seemingly innocuous detail in his Darwendale commissioning speech.
He acknowledged Chinese investments already in the country, or set to follow. That short reference was meant to demonstrate that Russian and Chinese capital would not fight for turf in Zimbabwe.
It would coexist; it would complement.
This is the detail which some emptily celebrated white liberal South African retired journalist — one Allister Sparks — missed.
Writing in one of the South African publications, Sparks speculates that Mugabe turned to Russia to spitefully hit back at the Chinese whom he claims had virtually snubbed Mugabe during the recent State visit by setting impossible preconditions for financial support for Zimbabwe.
For all his vaunted years of experience, Sparks does seem very poorly equipped to deal with, and interpret, an emerging world realignment phenomenon, post Ukraine.
Give us more time!
The Americans are using all sorts of dirty tricks in the hope of intimidating Zimbabwe, in the hope of scuttling Chinese and Russian investments here.
One of my readers transposed his own fear and impotence, transposed it to his country, Zimbabwe.
He use the animal imagery I used in my instalment last week, to suggest Zimbabwe is a hapless victim of America. He thinks her defiant stance against a superpower only invites greater retribution, greater misery. He is entitled to his view, cowardly though it is. But we must understand current politics in the ever emerging world order. I thought the Russian Foreign Minister made another telling point, this time away from scribes.
He recalled his recent encounter with America's Kerry, during which encounter Lavlov cynically asked Kerry if America was in the habit of reviewing results of its peace-making efforts.
Could he, added Lavlov, address that question paying particular regard to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria and again Iraq! Kerry could only say, give us more time, give us more time.
Daring America
At this existential moment, America badly needs a success case for show. None exists presently, with all its operations going up in smoke, daily.
The emerging situations, all of them of America's creation, are posing real threats to America's world dominance, real or imagined.
Much worse, poking fun and ridicule to all her pacification efforts. In the case of Middle East, a new generation of fighters, diligent fighters, are emerging who have grown up and have been made stronger in a habitat defined by American air fire power.
Not quite a winnable war when your raining bombs appear to nourish those they are supposed to stun and demolish. Nourish their cause even, placing them up as the only real defenders of the Faith. Those bombs are best recruiting message for ISIS.
And once inured to that harsh habitat, once habituated to aerial war, the blossoming fighters now dare America to send boots on the ground. America is no longer than awesome power.
America will not sent boots on the ground, fearing greater mortality in an election year. We know what adjective to give such reluctance: cowardice.
America's lonely war
And what a remarkable contrast with Putin. He has been given East Ukrainian rebels who are fighting the government there for adoption.
He has embraced them. Whatever setbacks they may suffer, he never lets them down, even occasionally sending Russian boots, tanks and food into the fray. Contrast that with the Kurds desperately battling to keep encircled cities in Syria and Iraq, closer to the border with Turkey.
And the message is clear: America's hard armour has been tested and has been found to be useless. And hard power is a tool of last instance. What next? America might have to fight that war against ISIS eventually, reluctantly.
Not for the sake of Syria, Iraq or Israel. Or Turkey, or for the Kurds. But for the sake of its standing as a superpower at a time when Putin is busy pecking America's awesome horns, via proxies of course.
So far the bear's bite has sunk into plumes of feathery horns. Could there be enamel beneath, goring enamel?
I was at the recent UN. I saw Obama try his damnedest to convince the world ISIS was a threat to world peace.
Was everyone's enemy. They slit throats, he roared in learned outrage.
They are animals, he added. Until someone told him that same month Saudi Arabia had slit more throats than ISIS, Saudi Arabia which is Obama's bombing ally against ISIS. He cut a frantic, pitiable figure whose tale was more tired than that told by an idiot.
In the case of Mugabe's speech, no mention was made of ISIS, whether in support or condemnation. This is America's war. Let her fight and lose it.
Pee on sacred wings
The essence of American global dominance has always been hard armour, one held both in check and threat, always led by soft power by way of its all-edifying values, all-developing dollar, and those many food gifts donated in the name of "American people".
Today that armour has failed, in fact failed that day when Serb women danced and peed atop wings of a downed stealth fighter bomber in Yugoslavia.
Later, when their bladders were well emptied, wings of the bomber drenched by their acrid discharge, the Serb women scribbled: we thought a stealth bomber was invisible? From that day, America lost the war, lost its status as the sole superpower. In this new war against ISIS, it has unfurled another bomber, but to no effect on the battlefront.
Lessons from the graveyard
Much worse when America slapped us with unjust and unjustifiable sanctions. We met its vindictive side, against a very small, yet supremely proud people. What had we done to anger mighty America? Where resided our power to pose "a continuing, extraordinary threat" to her might? Something rang puny and spiteful, themselves never attributes of a civilising power America thinks it is.
When we recall how in the early seventies it chose chrome for our freedom, we condemn it utterly as a racist country.
When we recall that "nato" gun which the Rhodesian gunner carried and triggered against us, we see blood on its civilising mission, wondering what lessons do the dead derive from graveyards.
But we also see how history moves slowly, often cyclically, often repeatedly throwing up choices we have met before: is it the "Sabhu" or the Bren gun? Why is the choice ever the same as yesterday?
Does history not move forward, suggesting new dilemmas for an evolving people? Demanding new sacrifices from a suffering people. Maybe it doesn't.
Which is why the liberation war, its naming tradition included, remains a key resource with which to fight current battles.


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May 22, 2014 – NAFCU's letter urging transparency at CFPB was entered into the record of a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing Wednesday by panel Chairman Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.
Writing in advance of the hearing, NAFCU Vice President of Legislative Affairs Thaler
that the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit adopt some of the bills being discussed that would promote transparency about the "day-to-day operations" at the agency: "NAFCU believes today's hearing is an important one, as it is critical for the day-to-day operations of credit unions to have a clear understanding of how the CFPB operates," he wrote.
The panel was reviewing several pieces of legislation, including H.R. 4262, the "Bureau Advisory Commission Transparency Act," introduced by Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis. This bill would apply the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act to CFPB. The law requires open meetings and public involvement to be allowed in government agencies.
Hearing witness Ed Mierzwinski, from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, voiced opposition to a discussion draft from Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., for repeal of CFPB's ability to prohibit, condition or limit the use of arbitration provisions in contracts for consumer financial products and services.
The president of the American Land Title Association testified in favor of H.R. 4383 – the "Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Small Business Advisory Board Act" – legislation from Reps. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., and Dennis Heck, D-Wash., to create a small business advisory council at the bureau.
In an announcement welcomed by NAFCU as well as Duffy, CFPB announced this week that the bureau's board and council meetings will now be open to the public and streamed online beginning with the June 18 meeting of the Consumer Advisory Board. This new policy also applies to the Credit Union Advisory Board and the Community Bank Advisory Board.
Related Links
"NAFCU urges further transparency at CFPB," 5/21/14
Patent reform: Leahy withdraws bill, House panel eyes draft
Senate subcommittee eyes SBA, CDFI funds


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Summary by James R. Martin, Ph.D., CMA
Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida
Ridgway begins by saying that quantitative performance measurements are useful tools, but indiscriminate use and undue confidence and reliance on them results because of inadequate knowledge related to the effects and consequences of their use. He discusses cases where all quantitative performance measurements, including single measurements, multiple measurements and composite measurements, have caused undesirable consequences for the over-all organization performance.
Single Measurements
Some of the single measurement problems mentioned include:
1. A case where public employment interviewers were evaluated based on the number of interviews. This caused the interviewers to conduct fast interviews, but very few job applicants were placed.
2. A situation where investigators in a law enforcement agency were given a quota of eight cases per month. At the end of the month investigators picked easy fast cases to meet their quota. Some more urgent, but more difficult cases were delayed or ignored.
3. A manufacturing example similar to the above situation where a production quota caused managers to work on all the easy orders towards the end of the month, ignoring the sequence in which the orders were received.
4. Another case involved emphasis on setting monthly production records. This caused production managers to neglect repairs and maintenance.
5. Standard costing is mentioned as a frequent source of problems where managers are motivated to spend a considerable amount of time and energy debating about how indirect cost should be allocated and attempting to explain the differences between the actual and standard costs.
All of the measurements mentioned above motivate effort, but in these cases the effort was wasted or detrimental to the organization.
Multiple Measurements
Ridgway points out that multiple measurements have been recommended by many authors. For example, Peter Drucker listed the following measurements in his 1954 book, The Practice of Management: Market standing, innovation, productivity, physical and financial resources, profitability, management performance and development, worker performance and attitude, and public responsibility. Drucker used the term "balanced stress on objectives" to make his point that multiple measurements were needed.
The problem with multiple measurements, according to Ridgway, is that the individual is forced to judge whether an increase in effort to improve one area of performance will improve the overall performance, or reduce the performance in some other area to more than offset the improvement in the first area.
Composite Measurements
Composite measurements are where the separate quantities related to a set of measurements are weighted in some way and then added or averaged. There has to be an explicit weighting of the various criteria. One potential advantage of a composite measurement over multiple measurements is that with multiple criteria, pressure to improve one area might be relieved by reducing effort on some other criteria. A composite measurement tends to reduce the motivation to reduce effort in one area to improve another area of performance.
Ridgway discusses two situations where composite measurements were used. One example involved a composite measurement used by the American Institute of Management to evaluate and rank the managements of corporations. He did not mention any problems with this case, but these measurements were external to the company's involved.
Another composite measurement used by the Air Force is said to have caused tension, role and value conflicts, reduced morale, inter-crew antagonism, communication distortions and various other problems. Ridgway makes the point that even composite measurements tend to cause undesirable consequences for the overall organizational performance. He sums up by saying that the motivational and behavioral consequences of performance measurements is inadequately understood and recommends more research so that behavior may be oriented towards the organization's goals.
Related summaries:
Berliner, C. and J. A. Brimson, eds. 1988. Chapter 6: CMS performance measurement. Cost Management for Today's Advanced Manufacturing: The CAM-I Conceptual Design. Harvard Business School Press. (Summary).
Clinton, B. D. and S. Chen. 1998. Do new performance measures measure up? Management Accounting (October): 38, 40-43. (Summary).
Deming, W. E. 1993. The New Economics For Industry, Government & Education. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study. (Summary).
Fullerton, R. R. 2003. Performance measurement and reward systems in JIT and non-JIT firms. Cost Management (November/December): 40-47. (Summary).
Fullerton, R. R. and C. S. McWatters. 2002. The role of performance measures and incentive systems in relation to the degree of JIT implementation. Accounting, Organizations and Society 27(8): 711-735. (Summary).
Hendricks, J. A., D. G. Defreitas and D. K. Walker. 1996. Changing performance measures at Caterpillar. Management Accounting (December): 18-22, 24. (Summary).
Ittner, C. D. and D. F. Larcker. 1998. Innovations in performance measurement: Trends and research implications. Journal of Management Accounting Research (10): 205-238. (Summary).
Ittner, C. D. and D. F. Larcker. 2003. Coming up short on nonfinancial performance measurement. Harvard Business Review (November): 88-95. (Summary).
Kaplan, R. S. and D. P. Norton. 1992. The balanced scorecard - Measures that drive performance. Harvard Business Review (January/February): 71-79. (Summary).
Lessner, J. 1989. Performance measurement in a just-in-time environment: Can traditional performance measurements still be used? Journal of Cost Management (Fall): 23-28. (Summary).
Martin, J. R. Not dated. Chapter 10: Standard Full Absorption Costing. Management Accounting: Concepts, Techniques & Controversial Issues. Management And Accounting Web. https://maaw.info/Chapter10.htm
Otley, D. and A. Fakiolas. 2000. Reliance on accounting performance measures: Dead end or new beginning. Accounting, Organizations and Society 25(4-5): 497-510. (See also Hartmann, AOS same issue, pp. 451-482). (Summary).
Reilly, G. P. and R. R. Reilly. 2000. Using a measure network to understand and deliver value. Journal of Cost Management (November/December): 5-14. (Summary).
Roehm, H. A. and J. R. Castellano. 1999. The danger of relying on accounting numbers alone. Management Accounting Quarterly (Fall): 4-9. (Summary).
Schonberger, R. J. 2008. Lean performance management (Metrics don't add up). Cost Management (January/February): 5-10. (Note: Schonberger criticizes the KPI or scorecard approach from the lean enterprise perspective. Summary).
Stivers, B. P., T. J. Covin, N. G. Hall and S. W. Smalt. 1998. How nonfinancial performance measures are used. Management Accounting (February): 44, 46-49. (Summary).
Tatikonda, L. U. and R. J. Tatikonda. 1998. We need dynamic performance measures. Management Accounting (September): 49-53. (Summary).
Vollmann, T. 1990. Changing manufacturing performance measurements. Proceedings of the Third Annual Management Accounting Symposium. Sarasota: American Accounting Association: 53-62. (Summary).


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I know, I know – we're getting just as tired of all of this back and forth surrounding Ghostbusters 3 as you are. But when you look at it, it's not so much "back and forth" as it is "Dan Akroyd shooting his mouth off," so it should come as no surprise that the most recent update from the former Blues Brother is that "Bill Murray will not do the movie." Seems pretty definitive, and a good indicator that the film should just be abandoned. Wait, what's that? Akroyd still wants to make it? Give me a break.
Akroyd told The Telegraph (via Vulture):
At this point it's in suspended animation. The studio, the director Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis feel there must be a way to do it, but Bill Murray will not do the movie. He doesn't want to be involved. He's got six kids, houses all over America. He golfs in these tournaments where they pay him to turn up and have a laugh. He's into this life and living it. I know we'd have a lot of fun [but] I can't be mad at him. He's a friend first, a colleague second. We have a deep personal relationship that transcends business and he doesn't want to know.
He claims they're "not going to do a movie that exploits the franchise," but recasting Murray's iconic Peter Venkman (or, frankly, doing the project without Murray's involvement at all) would be a flying in the face of that very claim. I'm really hoping now that he has a definite "no" from Murray, Akroyd will give it up entirely. Thoughts?


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distcc is a parallel build system that distributes compilation of C/C++/ObjC code across machines on a network. It can be set up in just a few minutes and makes builds up to ten times faster. It does not require machines to share a filesystem or have the same libraries or header files, and installation does not need superuser privileges.
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Release Notes: Various portability and minor bugs were fixed.
Re: Makefile oversights
> The Makefile doesn't support 'make
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distcc 3.0 supports 'make uninstall'.
See http://distcc.org
Re: Makefile oversights
I take it that you agree that 'make install-strip' is
needed since you didn't say anything about it.
Re: Makefile oversights
> The Makefile doesn't support 'make
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I think uninstall is better handled through package management. It is hard to do it reliably from a makefile.
Makefile oversights
The Makefile doesn't support 'make uninstall' or 'make install-strip'
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> Maybe an external "knowledge-base", as
> file(1) has magic(5), would be the best
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If it turned out that there was sufficient interest in other tasks which fit within this general concept then some kind of scriptable system would be good.
The task has to be something where it's completely determined by a small number of input and output files, and by the command line. If this is all that's needed, it may be simpler just to use rsh or ssh. distcc is needed mostly because the input has to be preprocessed and checked before being sent across. If it's a simpler task like for example sort then just running it on some random machine will be sufficient.
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text: On 09/20/2011 01:12 PM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! Hi > Policy is clear on packages in main aren't allowed to depend on > packages outside of main. Now in a fair amount of cases this has been > worked around by having the package outside of main as alternative > dependency and a package in main offer basic functionality for the > package to still be able to work. > > I know that the buildd system likes to pull in the first package in > such an alternative dependency chain. And now I start to wonder: The reason the buildd system only looks at the first alternative is to have a predictable set of build dependencies. The same is true for having the first alternative being in main as otherwise it might depend on the config of the buildd whether it will install the dependency in main or another one. That being said, it might be that having a predictable set of build dependencies on the buildds is not wanted anymore? > Is it allowed for a package in main to have a package _outside_ of main > as first component of an alternative dependency? The package in > question is extremely unlikely to ever be used as Build-Depends, so this > is of a more general question. Strictly speaking having an alternative dependency outside main is already bending the rules very far. The only reason I see why an alternative outside main is allowed, is that one could easily do something similar when using Provides. > tl;dr - what do you think, is a "Depends: foo-contrib | foo" acceptable > for packages in main or should it be "Depends: foo | foo-contrib" > instead? Personally I think we should stay with a predictable set of build dependencies on the buildds (only have them look at the first alternative) and we should stay with having a package in main as the first alternative of a build dependency of a package in main. Cheers Luk


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On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:07:24PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[José L. Redrejo Rodríguez]Sure, that's one of the needed things. Also, this should also be "daemonized"Perhaps, or just run from cron. The latter is easier, but require cron to be functional. :)do you have any idea of a practical time interval to wait between requests?Not sure what is needed to maximize the changes of success, but I would go with 3 tries with 5 seconds between them, and hope that was enough.
If it is known what causes unreliability - e.g. LDAP sometimes unresponsive - then perhaps extend the script to do e.g. simple direct LDAP queries to verify if getent responses are likely to be reliable.
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