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Visit this year's Top 1000 rankings of Canada's most profitable companies and find more tables, multimedia and analysis in Report on Business's full Top 1000 section.
By the time some companies make the Top 1000, they may already be in the doghouse with shareholders. We're talking mainly about new commodity (read: gold) concerns that skid soon after their IPOs. Other companies return to the ranking after they've spent a year or two in the minor leagues—often because they sank below the minimum asset level required to make the list. But carefully screening companies that weren't ranked last year can be a great way to find future winners. Our picks of this year's litter:
No. 407—Mosaic Capital Corp.
This growing conglomerate was built for dividends. Calgary-based Mosaic scours Western Canada for high-return, private businesses that it can take a majority stake in, and often leave the founding entrepreneurs with a small slug of stock and the keys to the corner office. Mosaic's capable managers are all shareholders, and they've bought firms in several industries, including mechanical contracting and waste-water treatment. So far, so good: Mosaic's revenues climbed 29% in the first quarter of 2013 and operating income was up 91%. Investors also get a dividend (yield: 1.7%). Add in prospects for buying more businesses from aged baby boomer owners who want to cash out or semi-retire, and there's still plenty of upside.
No. 623—Apogee Silver Ltd.
Get your bling on the cheap. Apogee can be considered a "near-producer" because its Pulacayo-Paca deposit in Bolivia has 95 million ounces of silver, has gone through a preliminary study and already produces small batches. The company has completed a financing in which insiders—down to the mine manager—participated. That's almost unheard-of in this business. So what do you pay to buy silver in the ground by investing in Apogee's stock? About 15 cents an ounce. Many full-fledged producers trade for about $4 per ounce, and near-producers for $1 to $2. Eventually, Apogee's discount will be recognized, and its share price will climb. And Apogee's chairman is Scott Paterson, the hard-driving head of Yorkton Securities in the late 1990s, who certainly displayed a flair for getting new issues to market, but then was fired and paid $1 million to settle an Ontario Securities Commission investigation into conflict of interest.
No. 412—Summit Industrial Income REIT
There are plenty of REITs out there, but one class of real estate is severely under-represented in REITland: industrial property. That's starting to change: industrial tenants are resilient and used to paying for their own leasehold improvements. This one—call it Son of Summit—is run by Lou Maroun and Paul Dykeman, who built and sold the original Summit Industrial REIT for more than $3 billion. They're back for a second kick at the gilt can. Investors who missed out the first time can tag along.
No. 699—Element Financial Corp.
Steve Hudson, master of the leasing game, is back after a hiatus that saw him move to Florida and take over the Hair Club for Men. The first time around Hudson took investors on a wild ride with Newcourt, which grew rapidly, floundered somewhat, then got bought by CIT. This time, a chastened Hudson will apply what he learned from his first experience to make the ride a little smoother as he grows aggressively by acquisition. In theory, that is.
No. 493—Rifco Inc.
Lending money to borrowers with bruised credit so they can buy new or used cars may sound like a sure way to get head trauma, but Rifco seems to have the formula about right. The Alberta-based concern has finally achieved that holiest of holy grails: economies of scale. And it's recently renewed several credit facilities that will be a much cheaper source of capital for its loans. Investors are happy.
The Top 1000 rankings in ROB Magazine and this website only provide a limited snapshot of data for the top 1000 companies in Canada. The most comprehensive database of Canadian corporate financial information is available for purchase in spreadsheet format here. This year we have improved on what we have offered in previous years in two separate packages based on whether your needs are research or sales prospecting. Find in-depth financial and contact information, total compensation for every CEO on the Top 1000 and more.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Rifco Inc. places starter interrupters in its borrowers' cars. Rifco has never used starter interrupter technology. The item also described Rifco's borrowers as "the working poor." The average annual income of a Rifco borrower is $55,000 and less than 5 per cent of the company's loans default.Report Typo/Error
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- Mosaic Capital Corp$7.860.00(0.00%)
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The Sketches of Sylvia Plath
The Paris Review Daily points us to a slideshow at The Telegraph of Sylvia Plath's sketches, which were exhibited in November at London's Mayor Gallery. "The delicacy and precision of her execution will come as no surprise to fans of Plath's writing; her mastery of the medium may."
The Telegraph writes that "The collection, which was passed onto Plath's daughter, Freida Hughes, by her father, Ted Hughes, clearly shows the strong connection between Plath's writing and artwork." There's even a sketch called "The Bell Jar." Plath wrote about the drawing that "I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on a silver log pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass after I was dead."
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When you want to serve something light but fancier than cookies, these dainty treats make a beautiful dessert. With a prepared pie crust, they're easy...yet have a special holiday look— the perfect combination for a busy time of year.
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- Pastry for a double-crust pie
- 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 to 2 tablespoons milk
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon shortening
- Roll out bottom crust to a 10-1/2-in. circle; place on an ungreased baking sheet. Combine nuts, sugar, honey, cinnamon and lemon juice; spread over crust. Roll out remaining pastry and place over nuts. Trim, seal and flute edges. Cut slits in pastry. Brush with milk.
- Bake at 375° for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool for 10 minutes. Cut into 16-20 wedges. Cool completely. In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Drizzle over wedges. Yield: 16-20 servings.
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Spain and UAE to boost economic ties
In an attempt to boost economic ties between the UAE and Spain, the Director General of the DCCI, Abdul Rahman Al Mutaiwee, received the director of the Spanish commercial trade office in Dubai, Valentine Lalsiskia on Sunday.
The two discussed enhanced trade between the countries, and the specific role that the DCCI plays in boosting such relations, including providing necessary support to its members to expand their businesses and increase their investments.
Mutaiwee noted the importance of establishing workshops between the two countries to introduce mutual investments opportunities. He also stressed the importance of signing a memo of understanding to enhance trade between the two countries.
For his part, Lalisiskia praised the efforts provided by the Spanish External Trade office at the Spanish Ministry of Commerce & Industry for their role in attracting foreign investments in Spain.
Non-oil trade between Dubai and Spain reached Dh1.4 billion in 2004, while export was estimated at Dh31.1 million, and re-export at Dh119.9 million.
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No one cries like Claire Danes. The Homeland actress is so good at welling up that a blog documenting her every on-screen tear has gone viral.
It even inspired a spoof on Saturday Night Live, in which Anne Hathaway did a wobbly-lipped impression of Carrie and someone declared: 'Her whole face looks like it's chewing gum.'
But Claire's crying is not a joke to us: every time she gets sad on screen, we're with her all the way. Our emotional attachment to the great Danes started back when Crush was an angsty teenager and her portrayal of 15-year-old Angela in My So-Called Life was, like, sooo us. Angela had a floppy-haired lover, a gay best friend and a velvet waistcoat. Swoon!
Since then, it was like Claire chose her roles especially for us — just when we were getting really FML she played Juliet to Leo's Romeo; she was all indie at the same time we were in Igby Goes Down; and then there was her star turn in Shopgirl, which was funny because we've always had a thing for Steve Martin, too. Now Crush is a thirty-something professional struggling to navigate life, love and a career, EXACTLY like manic depressive CIA agent Carrie in Homeland. Pass the Kleenex — series three starts on Sunday.
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Oldest Participant: Nils Backstrom (34 years, 247 days)
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The program was enlarged slightly, adding a 4 x 10 km relay to the men's 18 and 50 km events. The relay had been a part of the World Championships since 1933. There were 109 competitors representing 22 nations in the events. Six nations competed in cross-country skiing for the first time at the Winter Olympics – Bulgaria, Estonia, Great Britain, Greece, Romania, and Spain.


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Could the pressure of living up to Forza 3 be getting to the Gran Turismo 5 team?
Sony Corp has this week confirmed the latest edition to the phenomenally successful race series will be delayed and miss its previously announced March release day after "production-related matters". Worryingly Sony has not set a new date for the game.
The news will come as a blow to the company since it has placed a lot of faith in the exclusive PlayStation 3 title helping to shift many more consoles during 2010. Given the success of Forza 3 - an exclusive on the Xbox 360 and one in our Top Ten Games of 2009 - the need to produce something even more breathtaking has been cranked up. But until it hits shelves month after month passes with Forza 3 helping shift Xboxes.
Then again, from what we have seen of the GT5 Academy Time Trial demo released back in December we are already looking at one heck of a polished title. Still, Forza 3 still held the edge for me then so it will be intriguing to see what Sony can come up with. That's the positive take, anyway...


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Target: Environment Canada
Goal: Stop the Canadian government from killing off wolf populations because of wildlife disruption caused by tar sands development.
The expansion of oil and gas industries is causing a drastic decline in caribou populations within Alberta, Canada. Instead of acknowledging that development is decreasing the habitat for these caribou herds, thus leading to their declines, the Canadian government is placing the blame on the wolves. The Canadian government's proposed solution is to aggressively kill off wolves in Alberta, rather than stop or slow any development in the area, which is the real culprit in the loss of caribou.
A report released by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) brings the details of this situation to light—even more disturbing are the methods for killing these wolves. The Canadian government will destroy wolf populations by either shooting them from helicopters, or poisoning them with bait laced with strychnine, a deadly poison. Strychnine works through a painful progression of muscle spasms, convulsions and finally suffocation—the entire process takes several excruciating hours.
The plan is to place these strychnine baits in known habitats for wolves, and let the poison do its work. In addition to killing off thousands of wolves, the poison will put at risk the lives of other non-target species that will either unknowingly feast on a poisoned carcass, or ingest the strychnine bait on its own.
"Culling is an accepted if regrettable scientific practice and means of controlling populations and attempting to balance what civilization has developed" says Minister of Environment Peter Kent. Kent also notes that thousands of wolves will have to be killed in order to restore this balance, which has been fundamentally disrupted by tar sands development.
The problem with this line of thinking is that culling is actually unnecessary in this situation. Wolves are not the reason caribou populations are on the decline—development and loss of habitat is to blame. Without viable habitat, caribou and other species will decline no matter what, even if wolves are culled as planned.
In fact, over the past five years the Canadian government has spent over a million dollars on poisoning wolves with strychnine, killing over 500 wolves so far.
Instead of this unnecessary, irresponsible destruction of wolf populations—an important species in the ecosystem—the Canadian government ought to be protecting caribou habitat. This is yet another example of profiteering by the oil industry taking precedence over preserving environmental integrity. Please sign below to urge the Canadian government to stop this wolf cull, and invest time and energy into protecting caribou habitat instead.
Dear Environment Canada,
The Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline is leading to the destruction of wolf populations in Alberta, Canada. The expanding interests of the oil and gas industries will indirectly kill thousands of wolves if something is not done.
Development in the Alberta area is shrinking natural habitat, leading to a decline in caribou herds. Instead of acknowledging that oil and gas development is responsible for these disappearing populations, Canadian officials are blaming wolves. Now, instead of managing development and preserving caribou habitat, the government is killing wolves in a misguided attempt to save caribou populations.
Wolves are being killed with strychnine-laced bait. Strychnine, a deadly poison that kills after hours of excruciating pain, will kill not only wolves, but other non-target species as well.
The fact is, without viable habitat, caribou numbers will continue to plummet no matter how many wolves are killed. Destroying wolves with strychnine poison is a cruel and unnecessary practice. Please reconsider the notion of culling wolves to save caribou populations, and preserve habitat instead.
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"Am I proud to be a general manager with less-than-stellar results happening on my watch? Absolutely not. Do I take it personally? Yeah. I don't want to be associated with a team that doesn't live up to the high standards the Galaxy has over the years."
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Chainsaw Bar Oil
Is there a motor oil I can use in a pinch???
I don't know but, probably similar reasons as for not using motor oil in the transmission; it's different. Most chainsaws have had automatic oilers for a long time, so how is the pump going to handle motor oil? What about the seals? Will it stay on the bar, or is it going to simly be sprayed all over everything around you? What about lubricity? It seems like it would smoke pretty bad. Again, I don't know, but there are a few things that immediately come to mind.
I think in a pinch regular motor oil will do just fine, 10W30, 10W40. I've used it frequently.
My friend uses motor oil in his chain saw. I tell him not to. I don't know for certain that he's causing harm, but it seems likely -- bar oil is a lot thicker.
My father in law ties the bar oil to the pre-mix gasoline with a 3' rope -- then you're never in a pinch. :thumbsup: Makes it easy to carry too -- hands free over the shoulder. :laughing:
You want to use a much thicker oil than motor oil. A 75w90 etc gear oil would work in a pinch but like others have said there is a reason they make specific bar oil
The pinch is being out of one and having the other on hand.
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In I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends former Bachelor "villain" and season 16 winner Courtney Robertson shares her story of love and heartbreak, and the reality of appearing on reality TV. For the first time ever, a former Bachelor contestant takes us along on her journey to find love and reveals that "happily ever after" isn't always what it seems.
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Courtney Robertson joined season 16 of The Bachelor looking for love. A working model and newly single, Courtney fit the casting call: She was young, beautiful, and a natural in front of the cameras. Although she may have been there for all the right reasons, as the season unfolded and sparks began to fly something else was clear: She was not there to make friends.
Courtney quickly became one of the biggest villains in Bachelor franchise history. She unapologetically pursued her man, steamrolled her competition, and broke the rules—including partaking in an illicit skinny-dip that sealed her proposal. Now, after a very public breakup with her Bachelor, Ben Flajnik, Courtney opens up and tells her own story—from her first loves to her first moments in the limo. She dishes on life before, during, and after the Bachelor, including Ben's romantic proposal to her on a Swiss mountaintop and the tabloid frenzy that continued after the cameras stopped rolling.
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Amex Stoops To Conquer
On May 2, American Express CEO Harvey Golub lobbed the equivalent of a Molotov cocktail into a credit-card confab in Atlanta. After years of either ignoring or picking fights with banks, Golub invited his rivals to team up with him and issue American Express cards, something no U.S. bank has ever done.
True, under Visa USA Inc. bylaws, banks that market Visa cards can't issue AmEx cards. But that didn't stop Golub: He said banks would "make more money" with AmEx than with Visa and urged them to revolt. "There is no reason for you to continue to live under this bylaw.... You and your customers have everything to lose from it," said Golub, who even provided the astonished bankers with his office phone number and told them to call him to talk deals.
FAST DANCE. Golub doesn't have any takers yet, but his aggressive move is yet another example of the shock treatment that's helping to revive American Express Co. after years of stagnation. Earnings were strong in 1995 and in 1996's first quarter, when they soared to $396 million, a 12% rise from a year ago. One big reason: a cost-cutting effort that trimmed $450 million in 1995 alone.
To stop a slide in the number of its cards in use, AmEx has been launching new cards, including the Hilton Optima card and the Delta SkyMiles Optima. The effort is paying off by boosting total cards outstanding to 37.8 million in 1995 from 36.3 million in 1994. In the first quarter of 1996 alone, AmEx opened 400,000 new Optima accounts, says Robert E. McKinley, editor of Bank Card Update.
AmEx also has used independent sales agents to expand its merchant network, which had been beset by defections and quarrels. Result: AmEx earned a 22% return on equity in 1995, and its stock is up 57% since the beginning of last year. Crows AmEx Vice-Chairman Kenneth I. Chenault: "We have made major progress in closing the gaps."
Not all the gaps, though. AmEx is still losing market share in the card market, while banks, now the dominant card-issuers, are gaining by offering low-rate, low-fee Visa and MasterCard cards. That's why AmEx wants to form partnerships with banks. Says Ned Davis, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co.: "The best way to gain market share is to get the banks to issue the cards."
NICHE PRODUCTS. AmEx argues that bank customers want AmEx cards. For example, banks might want to issue the Platinum or Corporate Card, two AmEx cards that dominate their markets. "There are certain niches where certain AmEx cards would make sense," says Stephen A. Cone, chief marketing officer for KeyCorp, who nevertheless is not talking to AmEx about issuing its cards.
To make it worth the banks' while, AmEx is promising them increased profitability. The company can pay banks more because it collects more from its merchants. Banks could earn 1.3 cents on every dollar spent, compared with approximately 1 cents for Visa and MasterCard, estimates Oppenheimer's Davis.
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But Hamas was elected in the first ballot ever held among Palestinians! That was a huge setback for Israel and the US.<quoted text>
Hamas is the problem.
There are undoubtedly many citizens that are suffering needlessly. Hamas is making them suffer.
For years they had claimed that Yasser Arafat and El Fatah weren't representative of the Palestinians; they insisted on an election.
The result was a slap in the face: Palestinians elected the more radical Hamas. Hamas is less enclined to compromise than Arafat.
So now, they have to live with that choice. Also, Hamas brought Iran in the equation, Israel's deadly enemy. So now, it's a case of "plague on your house" for Israel.
Hamas is far more organised than El Fatah; on the social front, they brought schools, hospitals, food distribution, care for elderly, etc... which Arafat never bothered with. That won the votes of Palestinian for them. They also stopped the corruption in Gaza by expelling all Fatah administrators, etc...
Abbas, Arafat's successor, now looks like a puppet in Israeli hands, and I presume he wouldn't be re-elected as president.
Yes, Hamas may look like the devil, but it was brought there by circumstances and Israel being clumsy.


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KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. -- Led by four individuals among the top 21, Campbell University stands in 2nd place after Sunday's first day of the Palmetto Intercollegiate women's golf tournament at Oak Point Golf Club.
With Sunday's second round suspended due to darkness, Campbell stands at 13-over-par, trailing UNC Greensboro by seven strokes in the 18-school field. Maryland and host College of Charleston are tied for third place at 19-over.
Campbell junior Teresa Urquizu is tied for six place at one-over-par through 35 holes. She shot an opening round 73 on the par-72, 5907-yard Oak Point layout that included an eagle on the par-5 fourth hold. The native of San Sebastian, Spain was even-par through 17 holes before darkness suspended play Sunday evening.
Senior Michelle Koh is tied for 10th place at three-over-par. The product of Kuantan, Malaysia fired an opening-round 75, then was even through 15 holes in the second round.
Freshman Lisbeth Brooks is tied for 13th place at four-over-par. She carded a 76 Sunday morning, and was even-par on the second-round through 15 holes.
Sophomore Kaylin Yost was tied for 2nd after an opening round 71 that included four birdies. When darkness fell Sunday evening, however, she stood in a tie for 21st place at five-over-par with one hole remaining to be played.
Freshman Johanne Svendsen is in 80th place in the 96-golfer field at 18-over par. After an opening round 84, she played her first 16 holes Sunday afternoon at 6-over.
Fanny Cnops of UNC Greensboro leads the event at two-under-par through 32 holes. She shot an opening-round 70, and stood 2-under after 15 holes of play Sunday evening.
Lourdes Lopez of Jacksonville State and Ana Lucia Martinez from UNCG are tied for second at one-under par.
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First Round Team Results: 1. UNC Greensboro 293, 2. Campbell 295, 3. Maryland 297, 4. Illinois State 299, 5. College of Charleston 302, 6. Elon 303, 7. East Tennessee State 304, 8. Kansas State 305, T9. Morehead State 306, T9. Charleston Southern 306, T11. Western Carolina 307, T11. Jacksonville State 307, 13. William & Mary 311, T14. South Dakota State 312, T14. Kansas 312, 16. The Citadel 317, 17. Bucknell 319, 18. Richmond 322.
First Round Individual Leaders: Fanny Cnops (UNCG) 70, T2. Lourdes Lopez (Jacksonville State) 71, T2. Kristi Ingram (Elon) 71, T2. Gabriella Wahl (ETSU) 71, T2. Kaylin Yost (Campbell) 71.
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Nirvana Lyrics on Jay-Z's New Album?
Jay-Z's new album Magna Carta Holy Grail will drop on July 7th. Why would this be important to rock listeners such as yourself?
Because he uses lyrics from Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
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He went ahead and used them on his own without permission, which apparently upset Courtney Love. However, all has been smoothed over according to Love. She told Huffington Post that he has since asked for permission and that the business side has been taken care of. She also remarked that "Jay-Z's huge and we're friends."
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Every good story begins with an element of uncertainty, that quintessential air of "what will happen next?" My brother, for instance, met his future wife at an East Coast college and they dated for a couple years before parting ways. The breakup was a matter of geography: He moved back to Montana and she moved back to Tennessee. For five years they didn't even stay in touch—they were just distantly fond of each other. She was working in the city, he was out in the wilderness building trails. They dated other people. And then one day she decided to reboot her life and take a six-month, cross-country road trip to visit friends and family from coast to coast. She called my brother to tell him she'd be in town for a few days to catch up. Those two days turned into a few weeks. When she left again to continue on her road trip, a spark had ignited—we could all see it. They exchanged emails, and even when he hiked into the Bob Marshall to work on trails in the backcountry, they wrote letters that were delivered to my brother by mule. At the end of her road trip, she flew from New York to Montana. She borrowed a car, drove it to Hungry Horse and then down a long gravel road to the trailhead. From there, she rode a horse—with a packer as her guide—into the wild. When she and my brother met up, they slept on a bed of canvas under the stars. And that was that; they were together for good. At their wedding ceremony, their good friend and officiant told the tale again for all the guests to hear. It was a reminder of how far they'd come—literally—to get to the altar, as well as an entertaining story for the wedding guests.
Not every couple has a story that involves long journeys on horseback or a dramatic hiatus. That's okay. Whatever your origin story, it's important because it's yours, and for that reason it might be worth incorporating it into your ceremony. These days, more couples are looking for a way to personalize their wedding rather than sticking to a generic sermon or meditation on marriage. If you're looking for that personal touch, the following are a few things to keep in mind.
Find your plot
Make a list of small and big events you and your partner have shared together that map the moment you met to the time you decided to take the plunge. They can be simple and seemingly mundane moments, or profound and theatrical, or just plain hilarious. Remember that a good story is candid. Even fairy tales—with all their lost glass slippers, maidens in comas and dangerous dragons—travel an uneven road before ending up blissful.
No to TMI
That said, too much information isn't a good thing. No one wants to listen to super-intimate romantic stories (no one!) and no one wants to hear about private matters that feel like gossip. Hold those details for your memoirs, please. Once you've made your list, strike the things you think are TMI or that don't, for some reason, seem to fit the occasion.
Adding character
Beyond the story of how you met, you might consider adding in a list of details about each other that make you compatible or, on the other hand, make you opposites who attract. These anecdotes or tidbits can be peppered throughout your origin story to give it even more color. People will be riveted, and you'll be energized by the reminders of why you love each other.
Keep it short
Everybody at your wedding loves you, but they don't want to sit through a play-by-play.
Get an editor
To keep it short—and because you might be uncertain about what details should or shouldn't go into your ceremony story—find a friend who's a good writer to help you bring your tale to life. If your wedding officiant is a natural storyteller, consider writing up a cheat sheet of facts and interesting details about you and your partner and the way you met. Your officiant should be able to weave those things into his or her speech in a way that might even be a fun surprise for you and your to-be.
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Finally, make sure that you get a hard copy of your ceremony story for after your wedding. It'll be a nice reminder in years to come of how you and your newlywed saw the story of your particular "once upon a time." And, by the way, unlike fairy tales, the wedding isn't the "happily ever after." It's just another beginning to yet another potentially good story.


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This is a discussion on Real scenario from the news: License holder pulls gun during Black Friday melee within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Originally Posted by linuss In Texas, per the CHL statutes, threatening with a deadly weapon is not considered using deadly force. It's considered verbal force. ...
and the whole question of whether or not the use of lethal force was justified by the threat comes into play.
Also risk of bystanders in the crowd getting shot too were exceedingly high. IMO sufficiently high
to constitute criminal negligence if it happened.
The use of force was appropriate in this case, but force considerably less than drawing the gun was
probably in order. e.g., pepper, a kick, or how about less ego and just walk away.
I do agree with the earlier poster who said an LEO made a call at the scene so there probably
are lots of pieces of info we don't have.
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson
PC §9.31. SELF-DEFENSE. (a) Except as provided in Subsection (b), a person is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect the actor against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful force. The actor's belief that the force was immediately necessary as described by this subsection is presumed to be reasonable if the actor:
(1) knew or had reason to believe that the person against whom the force was used:
(A) unlawfully and with force entered, or was attempting to enter unlawfully and with force, the actor's occupied habitation, vehicle, or place of business or employment;
(B) unlawfully and with force removed, or was attempting to remove unlawfully and with force, the actor from the actor's habitation, vehicle, or place of business or employment; or
(C) was committing or attempting to commit aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery;
1A Is irrelevant to the situation
1B Is also irrelevant to the situation
1C Says nothing about simple assault, and is irrelevant.
Per this section (which deals with use of force in general, not lethal force specifically) there
does not appear to be a presumption that force can be used in response to what occurred.
Simply being punched doesn't create the presumptions which are defined; at least
that is my reading of this. Put another way, you can't just engage in a fight if you can walk away.
You can't just retaliate.
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson
It's high time people learned to be polite in public, my guess is the next time he thinks of smacking someone he will think twice.
1911 when a follow up shot just isn't an option
Sorry, I know "I wasn't there" line but I don't see myself drawing my firearm in this circumstance. I have had guys 6 inches taller than me threaten me and I never felt he need to pull my weapon.
Folks seriously need to learn less than lethal means of handling encounters (H2H or pepper spray or whatever.).
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Black Friday 2012: Rush at Victoria's Secret Pink at Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, Kan.
WATCH: Fight breaks out over phones on Black Friday | National News - NewsRadio 1200 WOAI, San Antonio
Boy Robbed During Black Friday Shopping At Arundel Mills « CBS Baltimore
I'm still trying to figure out the Vicky's uproar! Was someone hit with a wonder bra or what?
It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men!
Samuel Adams
"In an insane society a sane man must appear insane." Spock & Movie "Serial"
One more point....."people who get the crap stomped out of them".............
if you are getting the "crap stomped out of you" would you feel justified in pulling your gun? At what point in the assault do you make the determination that you must stop the assault by force?
It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men!
Samuel Adams
"In an insane society a sane man must appear insane." Spock & Movie "Serial"
Hopyard- good point about the bystanders. A real important consideration. As for "pepper, a kick or less ego" what is you don't have pepper spray? What if you arent capable of engaging in or winning a fight (kicking, punching, whatever).? As for LESS EGO. I fundamentally disagree with this. Our society is so backwards now that it seems to usually be the victims of bullying or violence or verbal abuse who end up in trouble with authority because of their response to the situation. To me, if you punch me in the face, my response is not about my ego. You punching me, that may have been about your ego, but my response? My response is about me standing up for my right to live free from abuse. My response is about self defense.
what the law allows. In this instance there was no legal presumption to protect the license holder
from being charged. The law does allow what he did if it is deemed "reasonable." We all know
that what one officer or DA finds reasonable another might find outrageous.
Not being there we only know that the responding officer sided with the license holder. Good.
But, as a general matter, once the punch has been landed it is over unless the guy is winding up or
threatening more. You as the defender don't keep a fight going just for ego when there is
nothing further to defend against. The horrific analogy is that pharmacist who shot
a robber after he was no longer a threat.
A determined assailant, who meant you serous harm would probably have thrown a series
of combative strikes and kicks and drawing a weapon would have been impossible. A trained
defender may have been justified in returning the force with equal or similar force, but
per the law there is no presumption that he would have been.
It all depends on what is reasonable in the circumstance. How many here
really want to trust their freedom to "it all depends," and the 20/20 hindsight of others?
Unless another blow was imminent or being threatened, I'd get my injury treated and let the cops
make the arrest. If no weapon was being presented I'd prefer pepper to presenting a firearm
because ALL --absolutely ALL of the legal downsides of its use are greatly far less severe
than the legal downsides of pointing a gun and perhaps actually firing it.
There is a reason why the famous book everyone here knows is titled, "IN THE GRAVEST EXTREME."
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson
I used to shop every Black Friday. Barely sleep...wait in line...be one of the first ones in at 2am... I finally realized it's not worth it. People are nuts. There's a fist fight almost every year at my Walmart on Black Friday. I'd rather be home, safe and warm, sleeping. Maybe I'm getting old...
On the other hand, if you punch me in the face...I can see me going for my weapon...


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The project "Financing of enterprises for the creation of wireless hotspots of broadband access" subsidises the development and operation of wireless hotspots in public mass places for access to the Internet with the use of LMDS, ADSL or Broadband Satellite Internet Access technologies.
The above action is included in the 1st action category "Projects of initial application of broadband network technologies" of Measure 4.2 "Development of infrastructures of local access networks".
The demand subsidy of fixed wireless access LMDS & xDSL and the creation of Wireless Hotspots has as a target to strengthen approximately 400 enterprises that wish to develop wireless broadband networks for public (provision of services to clients) or in-house use.
Businesses (e.g. hotel, tourist ones etc) have the possibility through the Wireless Hotspots to offer wireless access to network or Internet, Intranet, Extranet services of added value to users who move in the area they cover: moving citizens/ visitors of public or/ and private places –external visitors, guests, clients as well as employees.
These infrastructures can also be used as wireless local access networks (WLANs) being low-cost and high reliability solutions for cases where the installation of a structured wiring is not feasible or desirable.
The development of wireless hotspots of broadband access is carried out in areas where a considerable number of users/ visitors gather, such as: guest, accommodation and entertainment areas (hotels, restaurants, students' residences, sport facilities/ gyms etc), waiting/ transportation areas (airports, railway stations, ports/ marines/ bus stops etc), educational centers, universities, private schools, cultural areas (museums, archaeological sites, galleries etc), shopping centers, department stores, banks, event and conference areas (conference centers, commercial exhibition areas, Press centers etc) and other areas of providing services for the citizens (hospitals, courts, public bodies etc).
The best practices in the European and greater international area show that the development of wireless hotspots of broadband access must be done either by the bodies themselves having the above mentioned areas or by third providers that act in agreement with the said bodies. In both cases, they operate as wireless broadband access providers (WISPs) for a series of added value services.
The services provided indicatively include: web surfing, exchange of files and online communication among the users, access to multimedia applications in order to get pictures, interactive video and music, provision of informative or educational content, broadcast of advertising messages and entertainment services.
Services are also provided based on the geographic location of the user (Location Based Services), such as: automatic reception or provision of specialised data and information as well as roaming services that give the opportunity to the moving users to connect to different hotspots and receive all the services by charging their central account.
Access to the wireless network is possible with the use of a total of devices, compatible with the appropriate communication protocols, such as laptops, smart handheld devices (PDAs, telephones etc), wireless cameras and tele-broadcast screens etc.
The total budget of the action comes up to 21,427,120€ ; 10,000,000€ of the budget concern private participation and 11,427,120€ public expenditure. The strengthening of private investments and plans is done on the basis of De Minimis rule, while, as in the other projects that concern enterprises, 50% of the budget is given based on regional distribution (e.g. 5% will be given to enterprises in the region of the Northern Aegean).
In the framework of the action, the following actions have been completed:
The phase of signing the contracts between the "Information Society SA" and the approved enterprises is now being implemented while to-date approximately 1m€ have been contracted.Finally, a complementary cycle of proposal submission is planned for the utilisation of the indisposed funds from the initial call of the action, of a budget of 2,000,000 €. In the framework of the above action, a pilot installation of a wireless system of Internet access, through broadband infrastructures, is being implemented in the busy external area of Syntagma Square in Athens. Broadband Internet services on a trial- pilot basis, will be provided through the Wireless Hotspots, for citizens and visitors of the Square who have devices (laptops, handheld computers etc) with the appropriate equipment compatible with the WiFi standard while they will have the opportunity by changing a service hotspot, when they change their location, not to be disconnected and connect again to the wireless network (roaming).
The relevant small implementation cost, in combination with the restricted technological complexity included in the Wireless Hotspots solution, seems to make it especially attractive for enterprises that aim at offering new services to their clients and, perhaps, increase their clientele and turnover. The obvious results are the provision of advanced services for more citizens, through the quick and wireless access to the Internet at low cost, with a parallel reduction of geographical restrictions, as well as the increase of the competitiveness of the enterprises through the installation of new technologies and the adoption of modern business practices.
The biggest number of projects (57% from a total of 197 projects) will be implemented by enterprises of the tourist field and the food and drink field (hotels, restaurants) with 112 projects in total. The enterprises of the field are expected also to absorb the biggest part (approximately 62%) of the public financing.
The implementation of the approved projects is expected to lead to the creation of approximately 650 new Wireless Hotspots all over Greece, a fact which exceeds the initial objectives of the action.
The benefits for enterprises include: the improved client service by offering value added services, new revenue resources, indirect (attraction of new clients etc) or direct (provision of services on a subscription basis), cost and time reduction for the development of the network infrastructure of the enterprise and the possibility of parallel utilisation of the Wireless Hotspot for in-house use.
The benefits for citizens/ users include: wireless access to the Internet and local communication networks with high communication speeds without geographical restrictions, access to new, advanced high value added services at low cost (e.g. Voice over IP), the possibility of utilizing their time during their travels/ transportation/ waiting, the possibility of communication with their work place from remote areas through the Internet and the utilisation of special application categories (e.g. telemetry, tele-medicine, location-based services, easy purchases with the use of relevant product research or/ and promotion services etc).


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De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden. 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 470 Addition to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the names of one hundred and two genera of Caridea (class Crustacea, order Decapoda) and the use of the Plenary Powers for various purposes in connection therewith.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 16(9), 129-202 (1957)
Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (1999). Inventory and distribution of the decapod crustaceans from the northeastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the adjacent continental waters north of 25°N. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 40. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Paris. ISBN 2-86515-114-10. X, 383 pp.
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In most countries is not only an accepted practise but a legal requirement that two attorneys are appointed for the completion of a property purchase. One acts for the seller and of course the other for the buyer. Each safeguarding their clients interests. Makes perfect sense! In South Africa only one attorney is appointed. Appointed by the seller to transact the sale and paid for by the buyer. Who looks after the buyers interests? Would you really enter into...
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Wacken Open Air takes place annually in the small town of Schleswig-Holstein, in the north of Germany. The festival is a showcase of the many different styles of heavy metal.
W:O:A is attended by about 80,000 visitors every year and has around 100 acts playing for four days, which makes it the biggest heavy metal open air festival in the world.
World-famous rockbands like Deep Purple, Rammstein and the Red Hot Chili Peppers took the stage at earlier editions of the festival.
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Last month the U.S. Education Department for the first time rescinded one of the waivers it gave to states that exempts them the most onerous parts of the flawed No Child Left Behind law. It was Washington's, and as a result, the state will have to comply with all parts of No Child Left Behind — even though it is a law that Education Secretary Arne Duncan himself has said is fatally flawed. In fact, because of the peculiarities of the way the law was written, nearly all of Washington's public schools will now be seen as failing even though nothing actually changed in the schools. If it makes no sense to you, it doesn't to a lot of other people either, especially in Washington state.
Here is an open letter that David Iseminger, a member of the school board in Lake Stevens and a Microsoft employee, wrote to Duncan about this turn of events. Iseminger is on the board of the Washington State School Directors Association and is active in state and national education advocacy. He works in the Cloud+Enterprise division at Microsoft as a senior content developer for business intelligence. Follow him on Twitter @DavidIseminger, or share your thoughts and stories with #NoWaiver.
April 29, 2014
Dear Secretary Duncan,
Last week you revoked Washington State's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver, resulting in nearly every school in Washington being considered failing by your Department of Education. This summer, as a School Board Director in Lake Stevens, WA, you're requiring I send a "failure letter" to parents of any school that receives your funding.
Your reason for revoking our waiver: we didn't pass legislation you wanted. More precisely, we passed legislation, but it didn't have the wording (actually, one specific word) you wanted.
Since you're so distant from us – nearly 3,000 miles by one measure – let me tell you about this other Washington: We have strong leadership in our board rooms, schools, and classrooms; we have professional and effective educators; and our students are capable, confident, and work extremely hard. But don't take my word for it – our SAT scores, among other measures, speak for us.
When NCLB was passed twelve years ago, it focused America's resolve to elevate our children and our future. It was about accountability, about setting lofty and worthwhile goals, but it was also about believing in our educators, leaders, parents, and students. It was about what we would strive for, work toward. It was aspirational.
Today, NCLB has been subverted into a name-calling, label-applying bully pulpit. It languished in Congress, now six years stale, until failure according to its antiquated yardstick has become a certainty.
We tried to help. With input and work from many education advocates, Congress was provided an extensive list of fixes that would make NCLB workable and forward-thinking, and keep us all accountable. I was there too – as a member of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) Federal Relations Network (FRN), I made the trek to Washington D.C. multiple times to ask our members to reauthorize, year after year. While there, many of us from Washington also met with people from your Department of Education, in your building, trying to create relationships and press for a change in policy and tone: stop telling our students and educators they're failing, I said.
In Lake Stevens — and in school districts across America — we lead by example. We create confidence, capacity, knowledge, and opportunity for everyone in our community. There is a palpable and ubiquitous culture of excellence in Lake Stevens, where it's common knowledge that each individual is supported, challenged, engaged, and empowered. Such things don't appear overnight, they're not accidental, and I have no intention of having our work undermined by distant labels and bracketed explanations.
The schools you'd have us call "failing" are anything but: we have Schools of Distinction (one of them four years running), we have Washington Achievement Awards schools, and we have a Reward School.
The leaders whom you also assert are failing – me included – are not. Our school board has won the national Magna Award and is a recognized Board of Distinction. I am an elected member to the Board of Directors for our state-level Washington State School Directors Association (WSSDA), and my fellow Lake Stevens Board Director is President of WSSDA.
It's not that I don't understand your NCLB numbers or metrics. I work in the Business Intelligence group at Microsoft, part of the Cloud + Enterprise Division, so data and analytics is what I do.
And I've done the analysis. I've weighed the cost of your revoked waiver and considered its benefits, and the conclusion is clear: it's not worth it.
You can keep the waiver. And regarding your failure letter – I have little interest in using our Lake Stevens letterhead to tell our students and educators they're failures, because they are not. That letter is the topic of much discussion in our state – including whether we send it at all.
Our school leaders are strong, our educators are exceptional, and our students are dedicated. Fourteen days before school, what they will hear from leaders in Lake Stevens is this: the bar this year is raised again, we believe in you, and you must continue to strive for excellence. They will hear that we are behind them, and that we believe in them without reservation, or caveat.
If you pull our funding, you'll be forsaking Washington's most needy students – the very students for whom the original ESEA legislation was passed 50 years ago. You'll be abandoning those students, but we won't. In Lake Stevens – and in every district across America – we'll do whatever we must to ensure no child is left behind, waiver or not.
The irony is not lost on me: you revoked our waiver because we didn't pass a law that you wanted. If you're not sure what to do with our education-related failure letter, I know 536 folks in Washington, D.C. who seem pretty deserving right now.
David Iseminger
School Director, Lake Stevens School Board, Washington State
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Chantale Riddle to Participate in 2012 U.S. National Women's A2 Program
June 21, 2012
USA Volleyball's Original Release - March 22, 2012
New Mexico Volleyball Announces 2012 Schedule
Colorado Springs, Colo. -- University of New Mexico redshirt sophomore Chantale Riddle has been selected to participate in the 2012 U.S. Women's National A2 program scheduled to take place in Columbus, Ohio, from June 26-July 4. The program is an alternative option for collegiate volleyball players who were not selected to join the U.S. Women's National Team, meaning Riddle will be training and competing with some of the best collegiate players in the nation.
Riddle was originally selected as an alternate but received word mid-June she was added to the roster.
As a redshirt freshman, Riddle was a key contributor to the 2011 Lobo volleyball squad, finishing third on the team in kills (199) and points (239.0), and second in blocks (64).
"This is an amazing opportunity," Riddle said. "My coaches have put in a lot of work for me and have helped me push hard through the spring and fight to get the position."
Forty-eight athletes from 34 collegiate programs have been invited to participate in the program. Training begins the evening of June 26 and the athletes will have two practices a day June 27-29. Competition begins on June 30 as participants will have be split into four teams on June 28 for round-robin play. Each team will play a match per day at the Columbus Convention Center in conjunction with the USA Girls' Junior National Championships (GJNC) June 30-July 4. The first three days of competition are designated as pool matches and will consist of three sets to 25 points. The semifinals will be held July 3 and the finals are July 4 with regular 3-out-of-5 set matches.
Serving as co-head coaches are Ray Bechard (Kansas), Keylor Chan (Northwestern), Deitre Collins-Parker (San Diego State), Tonya Johnson (Georgia Tech), Wayne Kreklow (Missouri), Nicole Lantagne-Welch (Miami, (Fla.)), Lizzy Stemke (Georgia) and Jeff Stork (Cal State Northridge).
"It's a lot of fun getting advice from different coaches," Riddle said. "It's a big help to your game."
Riddle, along with junior Miquella Lovato and redshirt freshman Hannah Johnson represented the Lobos at the national team tryout back in February of this year at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Over 200 participants representing 73 different colleges were at the weekend-long tryout.
Former Lobo great Ashley Rhoades participated in the 2011 U.S. Women's National A2 Program. Riddle is honored to be following in her former teammate's footsteps.
"It's a big deal to be representing the University of New Mexico," Riddle said. "I think the only other player from our program who has recently been invited to this before was Ashley Rhoades and she's amazing. I look up to her and it is fun to be in the position she was at this time last year."


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Prezi is an increasingly popular cloud-based "Zooming Presentation Editor" that offers a conceptual and aesthetic shift from linear, slide-based presentation tools such as PowerPoint and Keynote. Prezi can be used to create highly effective graphical displays, but it can also induce major audience vertigo. Come to this session for:
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The National Rating of Universities in 2016, like a year earlier, is led by Lomonosov Moscow State University. Second and third places are shared by National Nuclear Research University MEPhI and Novosibirsk State University.
The country's top ten universities also include Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (NRU), St. Petersburg State University, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Bauman Moscow State Technical University (NRU), RUDN University, Tomsk State University and Tomsk Polytechnic University.
NRU-2016 ranks 238 Russian universities, including 67 classical universities (including 1 private university), 57 technical and technology universities (including architecture and construction, transportation and mining universities), 29 national research universities, 24 agricultural universities, 13 medical universities, 11 support universities, 11 economic universities (including 2 private), 10 federal universities, 10 pedagogical and linguistics universities, 4 law universities and 2 national universities.
Russia's best universities in 2016
(National Rating of Universities Top 20)
(The assessment has been adjusted to a 1,000-point scale)
Universities were assessed according to six main parameters: education activities; research activities; social environment; internationalization (international activities); innovation and entrepreneurship (technology entrepreneurship); and brand.
The weight ratio of the first two parameters is 0.2 for each parameter, while that of each of the other parameters is 0.15. The assessment is conducted on the basis of processing data from surveys filled out by representatives of universities, publicly available data posted by educational institutions on their official websites, public data from the information resources of the Education and Science Ministry of Russia, as well as information from the information and analysis systems SPARK (www.spark-interfax.ru, ) and SCAN (www.scan-interfax.ru, ).
Interfax has also published the results of ratings of Russian universities by Innovation and Entrepreneurship and by Brand.
The leaders in the rating by Innovation and Entrepreneurship were National Nuclear Research University MEPhI, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (NRU) and Bauman Moscow State Technical University (NRU).
Universities were assessed in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship by the following criteria: patent portfolio; cooperation with high-tech companies; development of innovation infrastructure; income from research and development; and participation of research and teaching staff and students in the work of specialized departments set up with companies and research institutes.
Russia's best universities in 2016 by
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The top three university brands in 2016 were Lomonosov Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University and Higher School of Economics National Research University.
The biggest advances in NRU-2016 by the measure of university Brand were made by ITMO University, Ural Federal University and Novosibirsk State University.
University brands were assessed by criteria such as contribution to the formation of the national elite; communication with target audience; media activity; and perception of research in the international and Russian-language academic communities.
As noted in the rating report, measures of universities' communications activity were factored into the rating for the first time. The reason for this was that 2016 saw noticeable changes in the communications policies of many of the country's leading universities.
Russia's best university brands in 2016
Interfax International Information Services Group began the National Rating of Universities project 2010 with the primary goal of developing the tools and procedures of an independent system to assess Russian post secondary institutions and their education programs, increase the competitiveness of Russia's system of higher education, academic research and technology entrepreneurship, and develop federal and regional universities, which are considered the backbone of the country's new economy.
The results of NRU-2016, and ratings of universities by Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Brand are available at www.univer-rating.ru
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