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JC Penney's Ullman: Still In Early Stages Of Turnaround
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J.C. Penney Company, Inc. has reported that it is making solid progress in its turnaround and provided an update on the company's operating performance and key initiatives underway to return to profitable growth. However, the company noted that implementing the new home store strategy has been more challenging than planned.
"Reconnecting with our customers and getting them into our stores is a top priority. Our enhanced messaging is reminding shoppers that JCPenney's offering of trusted private brands, key national brands and unique attractions sets us apart from the competition. Over the last six months, we have made significant strides and are now seeing positive signs in many important areas of the business, in spite of what continues to be a difficult environment for consumers and retailers in general," said Mike Ullman, CEO of JCPenney.
"While pleased with the improving trends and more predictable performance, we are still in the early stages of the turnaround and will maintain a relentless focus on achieving our long-term goals for the benefit of our customers, associates and shareholders," Ullman continued.
The company reported that it saw improved sales trends in fiscal September, and expects this to continue throughout the remainder of the year. Sales for the fiscal month of September, ended October 5, were down 4% when compared to September 2012. This constitutes a 580 basis point improvement over August 2013. Sales on jcp.com continue to trend double digits ahead of last year, and are up 18.6% in the third quarter to date.
September sales on jcp.com experienced 25.3% sales growth over the same period last year, according to the retailer. Gross margins continue to be impacted by lower clearance margins due to the overhang of inventory from the first two quarters of the year, higher levels of clearance units sold during the period, as well as the company's transition back to a promotional pricing strategy during the second quarter of 2013. For the month of September, units per transaction and average transaction value are above last year, while average unit retail was below last year.
Getting the new Home strategy up and running has been more challenging than originally planned, JC Penney reported. To date, the company has re-opened all but a handful of its 505 new Home departments. The merchandise assortment, shopping environment and price points have not resonated with customers, and sales trends remain weaker in stores. In-line with customer preferences, the company is working aggressively to create a more balanced assortment between modern and traditional home furnishings, with opening pricepoints and an easy shopping environment, which includes remerchandising the home store by classification in key areas.
Last week, JCPenney closed a public offering of 84 million shares of common stock that generated approximately $785 million in net cash proceeds. The company's year-end liquidity is now expected to be in excess of $2 billion, taking into account the net proceeds of approximately $785 million from the offering, as well as the previously disclosed expectation of $1.3 billion of year-end liquidity including the undrawn portion of the Company's credit facility.
According to the company, JCPenney has a highly experienced and focused leadership team. Over the last few weeks, it has filled several key positions with highly qualified executives from inside the company. This includes the appointments of Scott Laverty to EVP, chief information officer, Jan Hodges to SVP, GMM of Home and Katheryn Burchett to SVP of Property Development.
Ullman concluded, "Although there remains significant work to be done, the experience, talent and drive of our team is allowing us to confront our challenges head on and take swift and effective actions to address them. We are all dedicated to continuing the momentum underway and restoring JCPenney to a leadership position in American retail. It will take time, but we are on the right path with a sound strategy and achievable goals."
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Meet your newest Tea Party Catholic
If you haven't already collected your share of fast facts on David Brat, who primaried congressional majority leader Eric Cantor out of office yesterday, here are some worth starting with:
He ran with strong Tea Party support and largely on an anti-immigration message, referring to undocumented migrants as "illegals."
He's a professor of economics at Randolph-Macon University in Virginia, where he also teaches ethics; he holds a master's degree from Princeton Theological Seminary; he describes himself as a "free-market, Milton Friedman economist" and his scholarship includes work with titles like "God and Advanced Mammon — Can Theological Types Handle Usury and Capitalism?" and "An Analysis of the Moral Foundations in Ayn Rand"; he says he stands for the main tenets of the "Republican creed: free markets, equal protection under the law, fiscal responsibility, constitutional restraint, strong military and belief in God."
He is a Roman Catholic, though his position on immigration puts him politically far more in line with white evangelicals, among whom support for immigration has dropped to 48 percent; 63 percent of Catholics support immigration reform, as do 68 percent of religiously unaffiliated Americans.
He is either still celebrating or may need to brush up on actual policy, if this exchange from "Morning Joe" is any indicator. A snippet of his answer to a question from Chuck Todd about the minimum wage:
"Minimum wage, no, I'm a free market guy," Brat responded. "Our labor markets right now are already distorted from too many regulations. I think Cato estimates there's $2 trillion of regulatory problems and then throw Obamacare on top of that, the work hours is 30 hours a week. You can only hire 50 people. There's just distortion after distortion after distortion and we wonder why our labor markets are broken."
Todd then pressed Brat on the question.
"Um, I don't have a well-crafted response on that one," Brat finally conceded. "All I know is if you take the long-run graph over 200 years of the wage rate, it cannot differ from your nation's productivity. Right? So you can't make up wage rates."
As for arming Syrian rebels: "I'd love to go through all of this but my mind is — I love all the policy questions but I just wanted to talk about the victory ahead."
And as of 10:50 a.m. eastern, his website is down.
The post-mortems on Cantor also make for good reading, starting with E. J. Dionne Jr.'s take, now featured on our homepage.
Were Democratic voters behind the Brat victory? Virginia does not require party registration, and the high turnout in what was supposed to be Cantor cakewalk has some wondering if there was some electoral chaos at work. Update: Maybe not, according to the Washington Post.
Cantor drew more financial support from the finance and securities sector than any other sector, the chief contributors being Blackstone Group, Scoggins Capital Management, and Goldman Sachs – something Brat seized on in addition to Cantor's alleged laxity on keeping out the illegals.
From the same New York Times story this morning: Cantor's "demise is mildly Shakespearean," given how he "helped elevate Tea Party candidates in 2010 across the nation by giving them financial and political support," and his religion might have played a role as well:
David Wasserman, a House political analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said another, more local factor has to be acknowledged: Mr. Cantor, who dreamed of becoming the first Jewish speaker of the House, was culturally out of step with a redrawn district that was more rural, more gun-oriented and more conservative.
"Part of this plays into his religion," Mr. Wasserman said. "You can't ignore the elephant in the room."
Who will be Cantor's replacement? The reliable Robert Costa, who actually foresaw the chance of a Brat win, suggests some possibilities and also writes on where the power might shift in the House. Also, immigration reform is really and truly dead.
Cantor cannot register to run in the general election this fall, in which Brat will face Democrat Jack Trammell – also a professor at Randolph-Macon (!)—whose scholarly work includes a book on the Richmond slave trade.
Democrats are, by some accounts, giddy; "moderate" Republicans like Rep. Peter King of New York are not. And if you want to learn more about Tea Party Catholics, read Charles M.A. Clark's review of Samuel Gregg's book by the same name, featured now on our homepage and in our current issue.
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Gerald Seib in the WSJ:
But Mr. Cantor's defeat at the hands of the tea party isn't a problem only for Republican leaders. It also complicates life for President Barack Obama. In recent months, there had been a bit more cooperation between the two parties on issues such as the federal budget. Now, though, House Republicans, frightened by the sight of one of their leaders going down to defeat to tea-party forces to whom cooperation with the Democratic president is anathema, figure to be even less willing to cut deals with the White House.
Still, I'll bet John Boehner lifted a couple when it became clear the guy who would love to play Iago to his Othello will be looking for a job in the securities industry.
What a pity it wasn't Boehner who was toppled.
These Teapublicans love to eat their young.
They have my blessing when it comes to that.
He seems an odd duck, religiously -- anyone know St. Mary's Church in Richmond, where he attends?
He had this to say in one of his papers:
"I consider myself to be a fairly orthodox Calvinist (in theory, not practice) and I am also a fan of Adam Smith and the market system he so eloquently elaborated over 200 years ago."
David Gibson:
If Dave Brat considers himself to be a practicing Catholic within the Diocese of Richmond, I suggest that he read the opinion piece drafted by Bishop DiLorenzo of Richmond and Bishop Loverde of Arlington in the Richmond Times dispatch eight months ago. It is one of the best Catholic responses that I have read - factual and compassionate.
This piece by Sean Trende notes that, on the same night that Brat contributed to the Tea-Party-Isn't-Dead storyline, Lindsay Graham added to the Tea-Party-Is-Dead storyline. Trende offers a populist/anti-Washington explanation for Brat's victory.
St. Mary's is a West End Richmond (overwhelmingly white, upper middle-class, suburban parish). I don't know where he lives, but he works closer to St. Anne's in Ashland (home of Randolph Macon College) and to Redeemer in Mechanicsville. I don't know what that means, and I think it is inappropriate to draw political conclusions based on where one chooses to worship.
Speaking as one of the people who is not a Republican but voted for Brat in the "open" primary, I did so because i don't believe that in terms of their actual votes, Brat and Cantor would have differed all that much, but Brat will not have anything like the power Cantor was able to amass. In other words, he won't be nearly as effective in pushing the GOP social agenda of turning the Unites States into a third-world kleptocracy in which the poor are not human beings but expendable commodities. Instead, he will prove to be just one more ineffectual Randian idolator worshipping the false god of the Invisible Hand while ignoring the needs of actual persons. As such, he may eventually (perhaps by 2016) crash and burn and give some not insane candidate a much better chance to turn him out than Cantor ever could have provided. My only disappointment about this turn of events is that the Democrats have abandoned Howard Dean's 50-state strategy and didn't even plan to run anyone against Brat until shortly before the GOP primary. Cantor was so vulnerable that if they had organized correctly, they could have given Brat a run for his money in the general election this fall.
A lot of newspaper articles said this upset will really set back immigration reform; House Republicans will be to afraid to do anything now. But it seems like it would be worse for the GOP to be perceived as the party opposed to reform; would they want this to be the big issue in the upcoming election- overshadowing Obamacare, Benghazi, etc?
Maybe Mr. Brat is getting his Catholic economic advice from "Fr." Robert Sirico of Alban Institute infamy.
He sure sounds like he does.
Sorry .... make that the Acton Institute.
Are you attempting to imply by your use of "Fr." that Sirico is not in fact a Catholic priest? I believe that he graduated from Catholic University of America and was ordained a Paulist priest in 1989. Just thought you'd want to know.
David Hopper's comment above about the open primary is really interesting. I didn't see that in any of the newspaper reports (that it was an open primary; and people could vote across party lines).
Catholic? Just how "catholic"? His website states that he attends St. Mary's church in Richmond.
According to TIME artiticle
"He currently attends a Catholic church, but he also identifies as a Calvinist, and he lists four churches as affiliations on his resume: St. Michael's Catholic, Christ Church Episcopal, Third Presbyterian, and Shady Grove Methodist."
Excerpt from Dave Brat's website:
What We Believe
Dave Brat fully supports the Republican Creed, and any leader who unflinchingly upholds that Creed which reads as follows...
We Believe…
- That the free enterprise system is the most productive supplier of human needs and economic justice,
- That all individuals are entitled to equal rights, justice, and opportunities and should assume their responsibilities as citizens in a free society,
- That fiscal responsibility and budgetary restraints must be exercised at all levels of government,
- That the Federal Government must preserve individual liberty by observing Constitutional limitations,
- That peace is best preserved through a strong national defense,
- That faith in God, as recognized by our Founding Fathers is essential to the moral fiber of the Nation.
Bob: I know all about Robert Sirico, going back to 1969. I consider his use of the appellation "Father" to be a gross violation of common decency.
This was a great victory for the people, winning an election against an establishment candidate without the help of money or special interests. Cantor outspent Brat at a rate of more than 26 to 1! For people who have been bemoaning the oligarchichal state of our democracy and the power of money to decide elections, this should come as fantastic news. The thing is, for Democrats, who consider themselves the party of the people, Brat doesn't at all fit with what they think a people's candidate should look like. It must be a confusing time to be a liberal.
Indeed, though I wouldn't exactly call myseldf a liberal, I do find myself in the odd position of not agreeing with Brat on most of his positions but still being thrilled that he won.
"He currently attends a Catholic church, but he also identifies as a Calvinist, and he lists four churches as affiliations on his resume: St. Michael's Catholic, Christ Church Episcopal, Third Presbyterian, and Shady Grove Methodist."
Wow! I only claim three religious affiliations--Unitarian, Episcopalian, Roman Catholic--but have never tried juggling all three at the same period in my life (even though I certainly have my Unitarian and Anglican moments with the RCC).
On the other hand, I can understand why anybody in Congress, left or right, might feel it prudent to have four lines of fire insurance coverage.
What Brat says he believes in is fine by me. We have yet to see whether he truly believes in equality of rights, justice, and opportunity. (I'm not hopeful.)
"...four lines of fire insurance coverage." How wonderfully clever and telling. Thanks for that laugh!
Warren I agree with what I believe is the spirit of your remarks. But, I believe we can agree it ain't just about winning or losing, it about the agenda of the "winner" and the "loser". I'm guessing your "odd postion" remark aims in that direction.
For myself, what I cannot understand if why we continue to assist in this piecemeal destruction of rational thought by consistently allowing fanatics to identify themselves as conservatives. It is truly remarkable to extent to which this faux conservatism has embraced such pervasive self-righteousness as daily exemplified by the likes of the Tea Party core. David Brat has placed himself squarely in that lot though I comfortable believing his extensive education will allow him to couch much gibberish in fine verbal cloth. An educated opportunist no doubt.
David Brat was brought up a Presbyterian (so says Wikipedia). He claims having affiliation with several Christian denominations, namely Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist. He is married to a Catholic and attends a parish in Richmond.
It would not surprise me to discover that he has never attended RCIA instruction and converted to the Catholic faith and that he considers attendance at Mass to be enough to claim that he is Catholic on his website.
How do we know about David Bart's religious affiliations? They are listed in his curriculum vita on the Randolph-Macon College website.
Here goes:
Virginia Association of Economists
American Economic Association
Southern Economic Association
SouthEast Decision Sciences Institute
Twin Hickory Homeowners Association
Board Hartley Plantation Homeowners Association
Board Randolph-Macon College
Board of Associates Henrico County Republican Committee
St. Michael's Catholic Church
Christ Church Episcopal
Third Presbyterian Church
Shady Grove Methodist Church
United States Tennis Association
Hermitage C.C. 8.5 Men's Tennis League Travel Team
Tea Party Catholic. What a joke, except I am not laughing.
How can a Brat, who attended Hope College (Dutch Reformed Church) and Princeton Theological Seminry (Presbyterian), be so brashly identified as a Catholic.
I know a very devout Catholic woman who has a degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. Their website says:
"Princeton Theological Seminary is today a denominational school with an ecumenical, interdenominational, and worldwide constituency. This is reflected in the faculty, in the curriculum of studies, and in the student body."
The Tea Party used to be a catch-all for a number of disgruntled people who felt served by neither liberals nor conservatives. They had a variety of concerns and ranged from communitarians to Ayn Randians to those primarily concerned with the maintenance of their free access to any and all types of firearms. There was a Tea Party rally in our village a few years ago. It was actually kind of fun. Everybody got to get up and vent (often somewhat incoherently), and there were hot dogs, and a collection taken up for the local school. It was therapeutic.
I think the Tea Party is still an elusive thing to define. They don't really have any ideology that I can see, just a lot of mistrust. For instance, "insiders" in Congress are not to be trusted. I think that's why long-time conservatives like Speaker Boehner have a hard time controlling them. The federal government can't be trusted (it spies on people, squanders money, is run by bloated bureaucracies, is in the pocket of lobbyists). Liberals can't be trusted because they want to spend other people's money on social problems that have no viable solutions. Their tactics are to identify "insiders" and dig in the opposition.
In some ways, I admire them for their guts. But their movement seems kind of poorly thought out.
Brat's "Catholic Calvinism" is picked up by Julie Ingersoll, who links it to "theocratic libertarianism."
Brat notes a division between the responsibilities of the state and the church. The state, in this model, is severely restrained in its authority over economic activity. The best check on the depravity of individuals who make up the civil government is the decentralization of authority into the distinct spheres; the best check on the depravity of human beings in the economy is the decentralization of the market created by competition.
Historian Michael McVicar has this called this "theocratic libertarianism": it creates an economic zone free of government regulation, but it does not create a zone free of the regulations of religion.
This is the model in which care for the poor is the responsibility of the family and the church and any government safety net is labelled "socialism." It is the model in which education is the sole responsibility of families, leading to the goal of eliminating public education and any state regulation of private education and home schooling. At the very heart of this version of Calvinism is the goal of bringing all areas of life "under the Lordship of Christ."
Helen - re all those church "affiliations" - maybe that means he joined the parish? Lust looking at the names of all those churches, he does seem kind of polydenominational :-)
Sorry, I meant to type, "Just looking", not "Lust looking". :-)
Freudian slip?
Call me a skeptic but I do not think that he is a convert to Catholicism.
Helen - right, based on what's been presented here, I don't think so, either. I assume this is a case of a non-Catholic joining a Catholic parish, and now claiming on his website that he's 'affiliated' with that parish.
I think that the presumption is that because someone is Catholic, their politics will be informed by the social teaching of the church and/or the seamless garment approach. There is no evidence of that. It is more likely that a politician's political ideology will be what drives them in the public domain and they will just fit their faith to their politics and not vice versa.
I am not saying that is how it should be, I am saying that is how it is. If we want it to be otherwise, we need to start thinking about how to provide education. But the problem is the core Catholic community is as divided as anyone else.
George - re: the divided community: Catholic social teachings are foundational principles that can give rise to more than one possible policy. That is not to say that any and every policy is justifiable under Catholic social teaching. And I'm sure you're right that most politicians start with a laundry list of ideologically determined policy positions, and then work backward to try to align them with Catholic social teaching (if they even bother with that exercise at all).
The legalization of same sex marriage surely is one current example. Catholic moral and social teaching couldn't be more clear that same sex marriage is morally impermissible; but does it therefore follow that a large and religiously and morally diverse country like the US should therefore ban same sex marriage as an across-the-board policy? Many liberal Catholic politicians have supported the legalization of same sex marriage. It's not possible to look into their hearts to determine what the basis for that support is, but in charity I think we should assume that in at least some cases, those politicians support it because they find a certain consonance between their Catholic faith (or faith heritage) and support for same sex couples, and for granting certain rights to gay individuals. Many conservative Catholic politicians oppose same sex marriage, and I would say the same approach should apply: as we cannot look into their hearts, so in charity we should assume that their opposition is rooted in sincere religious and moral conviction, and that they believe a ban on same sex marriage is best for society and for same sex couples.
The same is true, I would argue, regarding policies that address problems of poverty. Catholic social teaching is crystal-clear that the poor must be helped. Liberal Catholic politicians wish to do this via government transfers (i.e. government-mandated redistribution). Conservative Catholic politicians wish to do this by fostering a vibrant economy, personal opportunity and personal responsibility. Each side attributes the worst motives to the other: if we accepted the political rhetoric at face value, we'd conclude that liberals oppose a prosperous economy, while conservatives want to shut down government entitlements completely. Neither is true; both sides are sincere; and both sides believe that their preferred policies align with Catholic social teaching.
Here's a piece of Brat's ramblings from a little diddy titled ""God and the Advanced Mammon — Can Theological Types Handle Usury and Capitalism?"
"Capitalism is here to stay, and we need a church model that corresponds to that reality. Read Nietzsche. Nietzsche's diagnosis of the weak modern Christian democratic man was spot on. Jesus was a great man. Jesus said he was the Son of God. Jesus made things happen. Jesus had faith. Jesus actually made people better. Then came the Christians. What happened? What went wrong? We appear to be a bit passive. Hitler came along, and he did not meet with unified resistance. I have the sinking feeling that it could all happen again, quite easily. The church should rise up higher than Nietzsche could see and prove him wrong. We should love our neighbor so much that we actually believe in right and wrong, and do something about it. If we all did the right thing and had the guts to spread the word, we would not need the government to backstop every action we take."
Anybody care to name another fellow who pulled off a similar (but on a grander scale) political upset in the first half of the 20th century? He too claimed he was following God's word. The pervasive irony in these pseudo-intellectuals is the fodder keeping Stewart gainfully employed.
Less time convincing the adoring crowd one identifies oneself with Christ and a bit more with the thief on the cross just might help.
Well....Brat's point has some logic to it and Nietzsche's charicature of Christianity was devestating in its penetrating insight. This simply cannot be denied. And Brat is appealing to the Romantic ideas of the founding fathers formed as they were from the Enlghtenment.
However, human beings are not angels and government is necessary for good order. The framers of the US constitution had some very good ideas of checks and balances and devised a brilliant system. But I don't think the framers were as libertarian as the tea party folks suggest.
Nietzsche's diagnosis of the weak modern Christian democratic man was spot on.
Ahem. Am I to understand that "spot on" is currently recognized as a technical term of accuracy in theo-economic discourse as well as a marker that the user watches lots of British TV shows and BBC? As in, "My criticism of the minimum wage has not been crafted into a bumper sticker, but when it is, let me assure you it will be spot on"?
Excuse me, I have to use the loo.
Jim Pauwels' comment contains several points I find so far out of line I have to challenge them.
The notion that some people oppose same sex marriage because they believe a ban on same sex marriage is best for same sex couples seems patronizing in the extreme.
The statement on how liberals and conservatives want to address the problems of poverty is so far out of reality as to be insulting. That liberal Catholic politicians favor government mandated redistribution as the answer to poverty is plain and simply wrong. Not only is it wrong to even suggest all liberal Catholic politicians hold the same views, it is even wrong to suggest liberals of any stripe see redistribution as the answer to poverty.
Please do not mistake a response to a critical situation with a long term solution. The long term solution that is the liberals proven line is, jobs. Reduce unemployment below 5% *REAL* and you solve a whole lot of problems.
Saying conservative Catholic politicians wish to do this by fostering a vibrant economy, personal opportunity and personal responsibility is equally deceptive. It is far more likey that many don't consider it their problem at all. For that matter, personal responsibility does not factor into Mathew 25 at all. That's a judgemental toward the poor, which can be argued in policy, but has zero to do with Christ's command to feed the poor etc.
The poor are hungry today, so the problem needs to be addressed, starting yesterday.
Robert Klahn - I was describing my understanding of liberal and conservative positions on a couple of issues. If you find a conservative stance on same-sex marriage to be offensive, then (if my description of their stance is accurate), your argument is with them. Same with my description of liberal approaches to the problem of poverty.
It's also possible that you disagree with my descriptions, e.g. you believe that liberals don't favor government transfer policies to attack problems of poverty. If that's the case, then there may be something for us to discuss.


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The Malbim is saying that Tz'lofchad's daughters' claim was a yibum-type claim. While I don't know what he means by that, he definitely seems to be implying that anyone with a portion in the world to come could have yibum-type claims apply to them after death. Most of those killed by bes din fall into this category, and yibum would seemingly then apply.
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5 States That Secretly Control the Rest of America
You probably already know that New York is the center of all things fashionable, LA sets the standard for the movie industry, and we look to Florida for the latest in fanny pack news. What you probably didn't know is that there are other little pockets of America that control the rest of the country, from the small town that houses all of your credit cards to the city that determines what your food tastes like. For example ...
#5. Ohio and California Decide What You Get to Eat
Quick! List three things you know about Columbus, Ohio. And none of them can be that it was named after the explorer or a famous bus made of columns. What have you got? Nothing? Well, hang on to your butts, because we're about to blow them away with knowledge. If you enjoy fast food, there's an amazing chance that the good people of Columbus, Ohio, are the ones who picked your menu. That's right -- your local McDonald's won't get the new Cool Ranch Bacon McRib unless a few random citizens in Columbus give it the thumbs up.
"We accept bribes in the form of heart transplants."
To understand why, you have to get into the mind of a fast food chain. Before they risk millions of dollars on a new burger or stupid-sounding smoothie, they'd better be sure that the thing isn't going to flop. After all, no one wants to be known as the dummy who came up with the McAfrika burger. And Columbus happens to be the perfect test lab. For one thing, the demographics of the city mirror the rest of the nation; Columbus doesn't have a bunch of vegetarians or Eskimos clogging up the population and skewing fast food test results. It's a pure mini-America.
For another, Columbus is a bustling college town. When college students aren't busy cramming or emptying their bongs, they're "tweeting" and "Facebooking" and "Linkedining" about how great their lunch was. Finally, Columbus' geography semi-isolates it from other major cities, which is a good thing when you're testing an ad campaign or product. When your market is contained in one spot, it's easier to tell if they're actually hearing/seeing/feeling what you're putting out.
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"After weeks of intensive testing, we've decided to continue not pooping in the shake machine."
All of this adds up to a town with almost 20 national fast food headquarters clandestinely testing their fries and steak sandwiches in local restaurants. When Wendy's wants to try out a new burger, they do a mini-test in Columbus to determine if the product is good enough to go nationwide. Living in Columbus is like living in a fast food future, aka utopia.
On the other hand, a particular chunk of California is the perfect testing ground for another brand. When Taco Bell had the outrageous idea of wrapping a taco in a Dorito shell, they tried it out in Bakersfield, California, first. It turns out Bakersfield has "diverse economic and racial demographics" and a tendency to overindulge in fast food when compared to the rest of the country. Which probably explains why one out of every three Taco Bell sales in the test area included the Doritos Taco, and why the rest of us were offered the indignity of eating the worst food in a post-Double Down world.
If there were any justice on Earth, this thing's inventors would be tried in the Hague.
#4. Texas Decides What Kids Learn at School
You already know that Texas rules the nation in barbecue and Tejano music, but did you also know that the Lone Star State dictates what goes in textbooks for the rest of the country?
"Y'all are about to see way more page space devoted to meat-based sciences."
Here's why: Even though school curriculum and standards might vary from state to state, publishers sure as hell do not want to print up 50 different editions of each book. So the standards for everyone tend to be set by whichever state buys the most books.
Sure, California may have the largest school-age population, but they also have very strict hippie standards on what they teach their hippie children. Plus, California is so bankrupt that they can't afford to dictate dick in the nationwide market. In second place in the number of schoolchildren department is Texas, a state with a thriving economy and very clearly defined textbook standards. So it makes sense that textbook companies listen to what Texas has to say.
"We'd like to suggest some small additions."
So who cares, right? Well, Texas isn't like other states, and not just because of the big hair. Back in the '80s, a small group of Christian conservatives realized that they could influence the future more than politicians by getting into the heads of kids. That means populating the 15-member Texas State Board of Education that reviews and approves schoolbooks with creationists who don't believe in evolution, sex ed, or gay stuff. And that's why, when the Texas State Board of Education reviews the texts of a different topic annually, objections pour in from a strictly conservative viewpoint.
"'Condom' is too attractive a name. Can we call them 'penis suffocators' instead?"
For example, in 2009, the subject up for review was science, so the board decided that students should be challenged to consider the gaps in the fossil record as possible evidence against evolution. The board chairman was quoted as saying, "Evolution is hooey." "Hooey," because "balderdash" was too strong a word. In 2010, the board reviewed social studies; they decided that high school students should learn about the conservative icons of the 1990s, but not liberal or minority rights groups. Oh, and Joseph McCarthy was painted in a more positive light. That was the year that the board chairman said:
"The way I evaluate history textbooks is first I see how they cover Christianity and Israel ... Then I see how they treat Ronald Reagan -- he needs to get credit for saving the world from communism and for the good economy over the last 20 years because he lowered taxes."
"He also got Batman off drugs."
We can only imagine what the board is going to do to algebra once they get their weirdly fundamentalist hands on it. (Take out the "bra" part, probably. Ninth graders will take alge from now on.)
#3. You Probably Have a Credit Card Because of South Dakota
Grab your credit card statement. Look at the address: We bet that, regardless of who gave you the card or what bank it came from, the return address will be one of two cities: Wilmington, Delaware, or Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
"We picked the cities with the absolute worst Mexican food."
Remember at the end of Fight Club when Tyler Durden blew up all of the credit card company headquarters? Well, that was supposed to be Wilmington. So how did these two spots get a monopoly on credit cards?
"To get them all in one convenient location."
Well, believe it or not, there was once a time when using credit was considered taboo -- like sex before marriage or acknowledging other races. Then in the 1970s, just as credit card companies started to convince Americans that borrowing money to pay for luxuries wasn't of the devil, the mother of all recessions hit the economy. Even though the inflation rate went up, usury laws prevented credit card companies from raising their rates to match it. By 1980, Citibank had lost over $1 billion in their ventures into the world of credit, and bankruptcy was imminent.
Then the executives at Citibank had an idea. According to a little-known 1978 Supreme Court ruling, banks could use the rates of the states where they were headquartered, even if they were nationwide companies lending money all over the country. Boom! Loophole! South Dakota, in an effort to draw new businesses, had just passed a law eliminating caps on interest rates. Before you knew it, Citibank got its ass relocated from Long Island to Sioux Falls, where they could set their own rates and start making money again.
And that was the last financial difficulty that ever befell Citibank.
And they weren't the only ones. Before South Dakota could grab every credit card company in the universe, Delaware passed their own laws luring loaners over. And that, boys and girls, is why most of the credit card companies are based out of South Dakota and Delaware. And also why those states rule over everyone else when it comes to regulating credit card companies. A consumer advocate in California can't persuade his legislators to do jack squat about credit card regulations, because the state of California has zero say in the running of businesses that are based out of Delaware and South Dakota. The good news is that Delaware and South Dakota can't tell California how to do fusion cuisine.


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Thx for the reply. I never saw this as well. Nice to be proved also from your side. I have tested it on R1, NN3 MKII, NN5 bubbles as well. Always the same results: Level for first picture, then leave it alone and shoot around without leveling.
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I have several polygons being drawn on a map, usually representing a country or province or state. Depending on some chosen data, different regions may be selected, so what I was hoping is that there's a way to determine the center point between all of the features on the layer so the map can automatically be focused on the most relevant point. any help would be great. Thanks
It depends on what you mean by "center point". If you're trying to show all of the polygons from a center point you'd need two things: 1. the center point, and 2. the zoom level/scale that would show you all of the polygons.
One way to get that centerpiont would be to add the polygons to a geometry collection (http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.8/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Geometry/Collection-js.html) and then use the collection's getCentroid function to get the centroid of the collection. That still leaves you needing to know how zoomed you should make the map, though, so it's probably not the most efficient solution.
Given that the polygons are all on the same vector layer, a better solution would be to use vector_layer.getDataExtent(). This returns a Bounds object, which you could then use to update the map extent: map.zoomToExtent(bounds).
This is an example of what harry is talking about.
tested... works great.
If you query the MBR (minimum bBounding Rectangle) of all of the polygons, you automatically have the centre point. So start there, on loading, check what polygonsd have been selected and either query the MBR of them all, or get the min/max x/y and work from there.


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What are the formatting rules for scripts? Are there significant variations? What differences are there between stage plays, television, and movies?
First of all, read current scripts. You can surmise many formatting rules from examples.
Second, buy The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script. This helped me out when I couldn't get my hands on scripts.
Third, there's so much more to screenwriting than just format. There is style, which can only be learned by reading lots and lots of really good scripts. But note that if you're trying to write a spec script, that the rules for you differ greatly from the professionals. Your script must be big on whitespace and short on description. It's not fair, but it's just the way things are.
If you're a Mac user, buy Scrivener. It's $45, and while it still costs something, it's a lot less than Final Draft.
According to its website:
It also has a terrific 'notecard and corkboard' interface which allows you to write in snippets and reorder them at will. You can also drag just about anything into it and use it for reference.
If you're a Windows user, there's yWriter. While there's no 'script' mode, you can at least write in scenes and focus on that.
If you are really dead set on only using a word processor, here's info on just the manuscript format. Good luck!
There is a really good free option for Mac users : CeltX
Why buy or use software as opposed to MS-Word or Pages? It does the formatting for you, so you don't even have to think about it and instead, can focus on your writing.
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Is there any way to compare the traffic to two different pages on the same graph in Google Analytics? I want to see how Page A compares to Page B over time in terms of number of pageviews.
I don't know of a way to perfectly compare two pages stats in the same chart in Google Analytics with Custom Segments, but you can get very close. It's not super convenient, but you can create a custom segment for each page you want to compare with the criteria:
Include | Page | Exactly matching | /page_url.html
Then filter your report with Advanced Segements to only show data from those two segments, and you have a comparison chart.
The catch is that the Page segment shows you all visits that included that URL, not raw hits on that visit. So the numbers for each will include the other pages visited by that user as well. (See http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=5995c74e098cd526&hl=en)
However you can get even closer by applying an Advanced Filter on those results with Include | Page | Matching RegEx | ^(page_url.html|page_url2.html)$
Then the numbers for each page will still include visits where the user visited both pages, but all other pages will be filtered out. That may be as close as you can get directly inside GA charts.
While you can't put them on the same chart, you can compare them across time using Google Analytics motion chart. In Content » Top Content » Visualize you can setup a motion chart that would display up to four variables (x, y, color, size) for any of your pages, in time.
apostlion is correct in that the two pages' stats cannot be compared with a Google Analytics chart, however, you have the option to export data (based upon the timeframe you specify) from the Content > Top Content section (use a regexp filter like "page1$|page2$") to a variety of formats and, if you follow the path of least resistance, you can compile plenty of fun Excel charts from the output.


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For most of your first month of pregnancy, you're unlikely to notice much of a change in your body or your feelings. In fact, many women (especially women who have somewhat irregular periods) don't begin to suspect they're pregnant until close to the end of that first month. Soon enough, however, the physical changes make themselves felt. This can be a time of wonder and excitement—but it's also the time of your most raging hormone-based symptoms (particularly morning sickness).
The second trimester, which runs from the fourth to the sixth month of pregnancy, is always a time of increased energy. This is when you run the risk of boredom if you have nothing to do—and is a great time to have some fun before nature stops you in your tracks.
For most of the third trimester you usually can keep pretty active, but you really do slow down in the last few weeks before delivery. You could do worse than to treat yourself like a cat during this time before delivery: Have you ever noticed how cats do nothing they do not want to do. They luxuriate in their laziness and always seem to know something we humans have yet to figure out.
Use your pregnancy as a time to revel in your womanhood and to try to mature into the role you will soon accept. Get to know yourself as a separate entity, so you can bring all your strength and wisdom to being a mother. You will be better equipped to handle all the situations that come your way.
Here are a few cat-like self-indulgences that can make the final weeks more comfortable:
That last point is really true: If you think you will have the luxury to do what you want when you want after the baby is born, think again. Once you have a baby, you realize that for the next 18 years—and well beyond—you will never again have the luxury of thinking only of yourself. This is not the same as suggesting that you lose your personal identity—it's just a recognition that, in ways different from any other relationship you've ever had, the mother-child tie is lifelong and profound.
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While doing some self-study, a friend posed this problem to me:
Let $a$ be a sequence, defined as following:
$$a_0 = 0,\quad a_1= 1, \qquad a_{n+2}=\frac{a_n+a_{n+1}}2$$
Figure out, whether $a$ converges, and if yes to which value. Find a closed form for $a_n$. If you want to, you may also have a look at the common case with $a_0= \alpha$ and $a_1 = \beta$.
It's easy to see, that this converges to $\frac2 3$, and the other parts are also easy to solve with quessing a result and afterwards proving it correct, but I dislike this approach, as it is not productive if the solution isn't obvious.
Is there a systematically approach for such problems? I would be really happy if somebody can explain me, how to systematically solve problems like this.


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31 May 2011 9:27 PM #1
Destroy method isn't working properly...
Destroy method is not removing the refernce....even remove is not working for x-panel type reference......
remove is removing the component from parent panel very properly but not removing the reference...its reference exist even after removing the component from parent...remove is just setting the isDestroyed property to true..
if i continue without destroying or removing...... i get Uncaught-TypeError-Cannot-read-property-className-of-undefined error....while dragging draggable items on the page....
if i tried opening that page directly....then its working fine......if tried opening with last page reference then i got Uncaught-TypeError-Cannot-read-property-className-of-undefined
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Could you create a test case for this issue please?
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I think the issue is that either the draggable or droppable objects are still registered as listeners, and they are trying to modify the class of their respective dom elements even though they don't exist anymore. I had a similar situation but doing panel.droppableObject.disable() did it for me (droppableObject a reference I added).


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You sit down at a restaurant and there is a good chance your coffee cup is upside down.
Once you turn it rightside up, any member of the wait staff understands you want it filled.
None for me thanks, I'll take my caffeine in the form of Diet Coke.
I grew up with parents who smoked and drank coffee and I hated the smell of both, so I never indulged myself in either.
Anyway, if you keep the coffee cup in the same manner you first saw it, the message sent to the wait staff is you do not want coffee.
Yet, they ask anyway.
Why is that?
The wait staff understands what is not being said, but really wants to hear it for themselves.
I have been at many places where, after being asked, people turn over their cups to get filled.
Such is the case happening now all over the Ohio Valley.
Practices began today for most athletes, with the rest following suit a week from today.
Each athlete will go to practice with the coffee cup turned up, wanting it to be filled.
Coaches will disseminate information and it is up to the athlete to partake in the drink.
If an athlete doesn't drink up the information, the coaches cannot refill it with more information.
In other words, if the athlete is not paying attention, all of what the coaches are saying is spilling over a filled cup, getting lost.
When that happens, everybody gets mad.
The coaches lose it because the athlete is not paying attention.
The teammates get caught in the crossfire because that excess liquid has now spilled on them because coaches are taking time to get an athlete to pay attention instead of coaching the others.
That same scenario happens daily in a classroom.
It runs downhill.
At the same time, parents must also turn the coffee cup over.
It will be filled by something, whether it be your athlete telling you stories on the day at practice or in the classroom, of a coach or teacher telling you a version of those stories.
Parents, I will let you in on a little secret, coaches and teachers really do not want to talk to us.
They are there to coach and teach, not babysit.
They would have a great year, and so would you, if kids did what was right.
But, that doesn't always happen because we all are humans, fallible and make mistakes daily.
Even with all those mistakes on both sides of the table, the truth being laid out on the table would solve a lot of problems rather quickly.
Coaches and teachers want our kids to drink up the information and education so they can refill the cup.
Coaches and teachers want our kids to succeed.
"My kid wouldn't do that," is a popular response to coaches and teachers and one they have heard 1,000 times too often.
Coaches and teachers do not want that conversation.
The bottom line in all of this is the athlete.
Be a good teammate.
Show up early, not on time.
Drink up all the information so the coaches can fill it up with more information.
Work hard.
If coaches see athletes work hard in practice, they feel comfortable knowing those athletes will work hard during a contest.
If coaches see no plausible work ethic during practice, there is no way they can feel comfortable putting that athlete into a contest unless the outcome has already been determined.
When that happens (and it will) the coach will then evaluate the athletes on their performance.
Coaches will see the effort.
Coaches will see the attitude.
Coaches will see if the athletes really want to play.
"Nothing can stop the person with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson
Folks, I see it all the time.
There is no talent involved in having a good attitude, being a good teammate, working hard or making an impact.
Dan Jansen at one time was the world's best speedskater.
He fell at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary when everyone thought he would skate to gold.
The story is he was feeling bad one day after a competition and was seeking sympathy from his father, who replied, "Son, there is a lot more to life than skating around in circles."
Sports is a great way to learn about life.
You have to be teammates with athletes you don't like.
You are coached by coaches you may not like.
You are participating in two-a-days, three-a-days while others are just waking up.
Remember, that's your choice.
If you choose to participate, do so with every fiber in your being.
Drink from the cup so it can be filled again and again.
Catholic Central is selling season tickets through Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. Cost is $35 per seat and includes the opening doubleheader on Aug. 26.
Next week: Athletes as role models.
(Mathison, a Weirton resident, is the sports editor of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times and can be contacted at email@example.com)


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I am doing a self study now a days. The topics are unfamiliar. Hence the question.
There are a number of things worth considering when choosing to set a deadline, but I'll focus on one: don't be too hasty to set the deadline.
If you aren't familiar with a subject, it will be very hard to gauge how quickly you'll pick things up once you get started. It's fairly reasonable to assume that you'll start learning faster the longer you spend time studying the same sort of thing, but you don't know:
Without knowing those things, making an estimate to use as a deadline just doesn't make a lot of sense. So my suggestion is to take some time working on the self study for a while until you feel comfortable with the subject matter, enough to say "Here are things that are easy for me, here are things that are hard for me, it took me X long to do Y, so I have to give myself more time for Z," and so on.
There are several types of deadlines. Sometimes you need to know the material by a certain date - then it is easy.
The others are goals/artificial ones to motivate you. One thing you could do with these before you know the topic is to have a goal of studying X hours a day for two weeks. Then at the end of the two weeks set a more content driven deadline.


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A Very Gnomie Christmas from the land of Fireballs
Hey Folks,
I am definitely AFK, in India, but that wont stop me wishing you all a very Gnomie Christmas.
Here's wishing you all the very best for events inside the game and out!
Have a shot of Gnomish cheer for me, and I will think of you!
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A new report released Thursday by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that African-American youth are exposed to more alcohol advertisement.
According to the study, black youth ages from the ages of 12-20 are seeing more advertisements for alcohol in magazines and on TV compared with all youth ages 12-20.
It found that young blacks saw 32 percent more alcochol ads in magazines and 17 percent more on TV compared to all youth.
Dr. Jernigan of John Hopkins, who was a researcher for this study, joined Roland Martin this morning on the Tom Joyner Morning.
He pointed out that popular publications like Essence, Vibe, Black Enterprise, and other popular black outlets are filled with alcohol advertisements.
However, he did point out that black youth consumes the least amount alcohol compared to other races.
Although Jernigan wants to make sure that people recognize that the advertisements are still a "risk factor" for black youth and they are still being over-exposed.
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After I boot the Live-CD I can't select try Lubuntu or Install Lubuntu and I end up hanging on that screen.
My PC specs are:
- Compaq Presario s4214bd 2.4ghz Intel Celeron.
- Windows XP/Ubuntu 10.04 dual boot.
- 768mb Ram.
- Nvidia 6200 Graphics card (I've switched between the onboard and PCI(this one) still no luck).
I really want to use Lubuntu and I've been trying everything for the past 2-3 hours.
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I have been working on my book (on and off...) for about 6 months. I have a good bit planned out with the plot, story line, and characters. I even have a small idea on how to start the story but somehow it never seems to be right.... So is there a certain place I should start my story? Way before the life changing events? Presently where the main character is and then just do backflashes? Please help!
If the beginning is blocking you, start writing something else.
You have an outline, right? You know roughly what's going to happen when. So pick some point which is easier, and start there. My suggestion is to start near the beginning (If your intro is I. in your outline, start with II., for example), but start with whatever part makes you excited to be writing.
Once you get into the groove, and you're feeling the voices of your characters and watching the story unfold under your fingertips, you can let that momentum carry you back to the opening of the story.
And you might develop an opening and then toss it three months from now when you're halfway through the book and you realize there's a better way to present your story. That's okay too.
Find excuses to start writing, not excuses to keep you from writing.
Here are some pointers from what I have learned from experience and from what more experienced writers have told me:
When in doubt, make it count for something. Many authors begin the story at a place which is or will be a pivotal part of the plot. Only you will know where or what this is, of course.
That is not to say that you should elaborate or explain why this particular passage is central, of course. Suspense and lack of information will drive your story forward.
A few famous examples:
The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler begins with the main event: The time when the protagonists wife asks him for a divorce. This is the event that triggers everything that transpires in the book.
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien begins with him describing the hobbit race. They will turn out to be the main focus of the books.
The hitchhiker's guide the the galaxy, by Douglas Adams begins with a description of Earth, and its subsequent destruction. The reasons for which are not immediately obvious.
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown begins with the assassination of an old man, which puts us firmly in the middle of the conspiracy and a murder mystery.
Perhaps more or less all books can be crammed into such a category, but the point is, this central point was invented (or discovered) by the author. Follow the threads in your story, see where they originate, and begin there.
There have been a bunch of good suggestions already. I think what I'm offering up is coming from a slightly different angle.
My first question to you is how do you want to write your story, or how do you want to write stories in general? Some writers are fervent outliners and they refuse to write any scenes until a solid skeleton is built. Some writers are intentionally discovery writers, they write with some purpose, story, character, setting, etc in mind, but they do not have a specific plan for what will happen. They let the story come to them as they write and edit.
As stated, there is not one answer. The most important is to not allow yourself too much time to think about it. There isn't a perfect formula, but for me, I try to evenly balance my time between mental processing and content creation. Or another way to put it, just start typing, or scribbling, or sketching... It is frustrating as a writer to produce bad content, but it is a contradiction as a writer to produce no content.
Trying something like a NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) group... or a meet-up to get you into the discipline of producing content. Once you're writing consistently you can even potentially work on multiple projects at once to keep your mind fresh, as perhaps even find other genres you really enjoy.
There's tons of advice to be given, but the most important is to put words on paper. The rest will follow...
The most important thing to remember when writing the opening of the story is that you have to keep the reader interested.
If it bores the reader, there is a high chance that he or she will put the book down.
This does not mean starting straight off with the life-changing events; in fact, those events will feel fake if there is no build-up. (Not to mention that the reader might not understand what's going on - another reason readers put down books!)
Bottom line, though, is that it depends on many factors.
By the way, you can post possible openings here and ask for critique.
There isn't a certain way to start a novel - it all depends on the story you want to tell.
The opening will set the tone of your story and should ideally give an idea of the main themes in the book. For example, if a big part of your story is the main character dealing with their past, then maybe you would want to start in the past, or start with a flashback to the past. Or if a big part is the relationship between two characters, then you could start in the present with a key scene between them that foreshadows the tribulations that are to come; or perhaps with a flashback to how they met, if the meeting has information that will intrigue the reader and throw some mystery onto the relationship.
It really comes down to what feels right - the fact that you're able to discern that things don't fit is a good start! Keep trying different tacks until you find one that you know is the one.
In the teach-a-writer-to-fish vein, may I suggest that a fruitful approach to a question like this is to look at some books you particularly like and see how those writers did it.
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