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Nairobi, Kenya's capital city and commercial hub, is by far the richest county, according to a new report that is also likely to add fuel to the ongoing debate on the new revenue sharing formula.
While Nairobi has the lowest share of poor population, in Turkana four in five people are poor, with those in the urban parts of Josphat Nanok-led county spending less than Sh5,995 in a month, while those in rural areas earn less than Sh3,252, according to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).
KNBS ranked Meru, Nyeri and Kirinyaga jointly as the second richest counties, with most of its residents able to comfortably fend for themselves. Other counties with fewer poor people include Narok, Kiambu, Machackos, Tharaka Nithi, Murang'a and Mombasa.
The report comes when the political class is sharply divided over a new revenue sharing formula, which critics have noted heaps more cash to rich counties at the expense of poor ones.
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Besides looking at the monetary poverty, the Comprehensive Poverty Report also focuses on multidimensional poverty, which goes beyond the so-called poverty-line metric that only focuses on people's income.
With multidimensional poverty, the report looked at such dimensions as physical development (stunting), nutrition, health, education, child protection, information, water, sanitation and housing.
For youths (18-34 years) and adult women and men (35-59 years), the indicators that went into measuring multidimensional poverty included nutrition, education, economic activity, information, water, sanitation and housing.
It is in multidimensional poverty, as opposed to monetary poverty, that the country is doing badly, with slightly over half (53 per cent) of Kenyans not enjoying all these services.
About 23.4 million Kenyans are multi-dimensionally poor, deprived in realisation of at least three basic needs, services and rights.
Young women, those between the ages 18 and 34, are more likely to be multidimensionally poor.
Close to half (46 per cent) of young women are deprived of economic activity compared to 34 per cent of young men.
As for monetary poverty, only 36 per cent of Kenyans were considered poor.
"The Sustainable Development Goals explicitly include a target on reducing multidimensional poverty," said National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani in a speech yesterday.
He put emphasis on the United Nation's target of reducing by half the proportion of women, men and children living in poverty in all its dimensions.
Close to 15.7 million Kenyans were poor as at the end of 2016, according to the report that was also supported by Unicef.
There was also another report that looked at women empowerment in the country while another delved on child poverty.
After Turkana, the next poorest counties, in monetary terms, were Mandera, Samburu, and Busia in that order. Others are Garissa, Marsabit, Wajir and West Pokot.
Most of these counties have lost out in the new revenue sharing formula, which puts more emphasis on services than poverty rate.
In making the case for the third formula, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) said it seeks to enhance service delivery, promote balanced development, encourage counties to raise their own cash and prudently use public resources.
The newly-added elements are access to healthcare, road network, agricultural activity and provision of urban services.
But critics of the new formula believe it hurts, rather than help, the poor. Those for it, who use the mantra "one man, one vote, one shilling", insist it will banish poverty in Kenya.
From the surface, the new revenue-sharing formula attaches less significance to poverty than previous formulas.
Indeed, the weight of the poverty index has been shrinking since Kenya embarked on implementing devolution seven years ago.
Under the first formula, the poverty index had a weight of 20 per cent. It then went down to 18 per cent in the second model and has taken a significant dip to 14 per cent under the latest proposal.
Thus, the 10 counties with the highest number of poor people stand to lose a collective Sh4.4 billion under the proposed formula, going by CRA calculations.
This dip is calculated against what they earned in the previous financial year under the second basis of revenue sharing.
An analysis of the census data for 2019 showed that beside Nairobi, most of the richest households in the country are also found in Kiambu, Kisumu, Mombasa and Kajiado counties.
They enjoy functional services like piped water, but most of them do not get their drinking water from the taps - instead they buy bottled water.
And as more wealthy people put up or buy homes outside the city, the number of households with cars is increasing in areas like Athi River and Kajiado North.
A ranking of Kenya's richest, in terms of wealth, released by KNBS earlier last year, ranked Nakuru as the second-largest economy after Nairobi in the inaugural 2019 Gross County Product (GCP) report.
Other counties that were ranked highly by the ground-breaking report due to their impactful economic activities but do not host any of the top 20 constituencies favoured by the wealthy include Nyandarua and Elgeyo Marakwet.
The KNBS report found that residents of Nairobi were the third most productive after those in Nyandarua and Elgeyo Marakwet, which had the first and second-highest GCP per capita (per person), respectively.
The national statistician calculated GCP per capita by dividing the total value of all finished goods and services produced in a county by its population.
Even critical is that the report sought to debunk the oft-repeated myth that Nairobi contributes over half of the overall economy in what is likely to result in massive re-engineering of investment in the country.
Nonetheless, Nairobi's GCP was the largest, contributing 21.7 per cent to the country's gross domestic products (GDP). Nakuru came second, racing ahead of Mombasa and Kisumu, which enjoy city status.
Nakuru contributed about 6.1 per cent to GDP, or the sum of all goods and services produced in the country in 2017.
The findings of the 2019 GCP – the GDP of each county – will also disappoint a group of politicians from the Mt Kenya region, who are pushing for more resources to be funneled to their backyard, arguing that their region contributes 60 per cent to the national cake.
"We know that Mt Kenya region contributes over 60 per cent of our country's GDP, yet only 20 per cent comes back to its people," said nominated MP Cecily Mbarire, who chaired a caucus of 70 MPs drawn from the region.
However, an analysis of the data shows that all the counties from what has been known as Mt Kenya region contribute less than 20 per cent combined.
However, from the latest data on poverty, Mt Kenya has less poverty than other parts of the country.
Other Mt Kenya counties that rank high in terms of having fewer poor people are Tharaka Nithi and Murang'a, which feature in the top 10 list.
West Pokot and Turkana were the second and third last counties in GCP per capita.
The report also showed that some counties were doing badly, with some of them having virtually no industries.
The county GCP figures may also play a key role in how the national cake is shared, with the CRA hinting that those with higher potential will get more funds to boost their productivity.


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The Synthesis and Characterization of Aspirin (Acetylsalicylic Acid).
In this experiment, we produced 4.21 g of acetylsalicylic acid. Our theoretical yield was calculated to be 5.22 g. Therefore our % yield was determined to be 80.6%. The experimental boiling point range of acetylsalicylic acid was found to be 130-132° C. The true melting point of acetylsalicylic acid is 135° C, therefore our percent error range of for the boiling point is found to be 2.2 - 3.7 %. Introduction:
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Moon phase on 11 February 2035 Sunday is Waxing Crescent, 3 days young Moon is in Aries.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 11% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 8 February 2035 at 08:22.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1902" and ∠1944".
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2035 after 10 days on 22 February 2035 at 08:54.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 434 of Meeus index or 1387 from Brown series.
Length of current 434 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes. It is 2 hours and 59 minutes longer than next lunation 435 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠255.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠291.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
8 days after point of apogee on 2 February 2035 at 12:48 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 18 February 2035 at 05:31 in ♋ Cancer.
Moon is 376 859 km (234 169 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 368 326 km (228 867 mi).
1 day after its descending node on 10 February 2035 at 07:03 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 23 February 2035 at 04:20 in ♍ Virgo.
15 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
6 days after previous South standstill on 4 February 2035 at 16:35 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.448°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.402° in the next northern standstill on 18 February 2035 at 04:16 in ♋ Cancer.
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Today, Microsoft announced the University of New England (UNE) is redefining the future of communication with Microsoft Lync 2013, which will give 23,000 students and staff to collaborate and communicate anytime from virtually anywhere, including via instant messaging, video conferencing and voice calls.
With 80% of UNE's students studying online, the university is leading the digital learning charge, enhancing their communication options for all students. The Microsoft Lync deployment, the largest within the Australian Pacific education sector, will enable UNE students, faculty and staff to make calls and benefit from online lecture delivery and collaboration, wherever they live.
"We have a long history of pioneering distance education that began in the 1950s with Australia's first distance learning courses," said University of New England Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jim Barber. "Technology has allowed us to remove the 'distance' from education and bring face-to-face online learning to people in the areas in which they live."
Universities are changing rapidly to keep ahead of current educational developments providing students and staff with access to the most up-to-date resources, technology tools and information. As a result, for the 2013/2014 university year, UNE will be increasing its investment in technology infrastructure resulting in some of the highest relative investment in the university sector in Australia and New Zealand.
"At UNE, our staff and students can now benefit from the most innovative online learning experience through software-based audio, video, conferencing, and collaboration via Microsoft Lync," said UNE IT Director, Robert Irving "Microsoft Lync will connect both current and potential future students with our educators and staff to facilitate better overall learning experiences and support whilst giving our researchers the ability to achieve faster results by making it easier to connect people with people and people with knowledge."
UNE will also take advantage of the global reach of Skype and its connectivity with Microsoft Lync as a new channel for student recruitment, both locally and offshore. Potential international and interstate students interested in the university will soon have the ability to call UNE via Skype, where previously they would have incurred international call charges.
"Today's workforce and workplace is mobile and in order to prepare students to succeed, we need to encourage and enable them to become mobile learners and active participants beyond the walls of the classroom," said George Stavrakakis, Education Director, Microsoft Australia. "They want to be able to learn in different places; not only in the real world but also in virtual environments – or a combination of the two – which Microsoft Lync and Skype enable."
The rise in people studying later in life means that universities need to be sympathetic to the needs of students who are juggling lifestyle commitments such as work and family. UNE's technology investment will provide new cost-efficient education to a broader demographic of students in an accessible and collaborative environment. It is also creating a new era of digital learning, where teachers and students can learn and work both in-person or virtually via their PC, tablet or smartphone. UNE also has plans to leverage the broader Microsoft hardware platform, in particular Xbox, PixelSense and Surface.
"Rather than simply replace their phone system, UNE saw an opportunity to embrace a truly unified communication and collaboration platform" said John Schneider, Managing Director for Computer Systems Australia Pty Ltd. "Lync enables the University to deliver a superior set of educational tools directly into the hands of its users through the device of their choice, no matter where they are."


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Views above the water — the mountains, forests, lakes and rivers — are part of what gives the Puget Sound region its scenic charm, but some of the most interesting sights to see lie beneath the surface.
Washington is home to a plethora of underwater diving sites, and some of the most popular and easily accessible sites are right in our back yard. Thousands of divers travel from across the state and country to visit sites such as Brackett's Landing Shoreline Sanctuary in Edmonds, the Mukilteo T-Dock and the Keystone Jetty on Whidbey Island to take in the scenic underwater life here.
"You see some of the most beautiful and interesting things while (diving)," said Brenna Nicholson, a 29-year-old with three years of diving experience. "It's like seeing an entirely different part of the state."
Keystone Jetty
This Whidbey Island dive site is at Fort Casey State Park near the Coupeville ferry terminal and features an abundance of wildlife, including lingcod, octopus and starfish.
Keystone Jetty is a personal favorite of Whidbey Island Dive Center owner Pat Beach, whose shop in Oak Harbor is about 15 miles north.
"It's a short dive," Beach said. "It's a simple, easy dive, but there's really a great representation of just about everything here in the Pacific Northwest that we really have to look at."
Beach also notes the accessibility of this dive site as another redeeming quality. And, with campgrounds nearby at Fort Casey, it offers divers the chance to get the full outdoors experience.
Mukilteo T-Dock
The T-Dock is an easy-to-get-to dive site near the Mukilteo ferry, and is another good place for beginning divers.
"It's one of the places that you can just park and go walk to the water and have a fun dive," Beach said.
The site also gets deep quick, and is a good place for crabbing, Beach added.
A couple of the park's most notable features are the pilings and the geodome structure. The geodome is about 50 feet below the water's surface and is popular with undersea creatures.
Brackett's Landing
The underwater park just north of the Edmonds ferry might be the most popular dive site in the area.
The site features plenty of marine life, but the biggest draw is the artificial features that have been added to the area over the past 20-plus years. Sunken vessels, man-made trails and concrete rubble are a few of the highlights for sightseers.
The site has a maximum depth of about 40 feet and is regularly maintained by a group of volunteer divers, according to the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Like most parks in the area, Brackett's Landing does not allow recreational or commercial fishing. In other words, if it's in the water, leave it be.
Nicholson said the site is busy because of its popularity, but that it's an easy dive and a must-see.
"Edmonds is one of the spots you've gotta check out when you first start," Nicholson said. "Almost like a rite of passage."
Getting started
To experience what Puget Sound has to offer, prospective divers must first become certified.
"If you're not certified and you come in my shop and want to get an air tank filled, I can't even fill your air tank," Beach said. "I can't take you diving, I can't rent you gear, I really can't have anything to do with you."
The certification classes are in place to ensure safety and educate new divers on the nuances of diving.
"It's not that it's that hard or that dangerous or anything," Beach said. "There are just things you need to take into consideration."
Certification classes are offered at dive shops around the state, and the length and price varies. Most classes involve online courses, class time in the shop, pool training and an open-water dive to test.
At Beach's shop, the standard course consists of two night classes for three weeks and two days of diving on the third weekend. After completing those two dives, you receive a license to dive.
After becoming certified, divers can contact local shops to find scheduled dives to attend, or use online forums or "buddy boards" to meet up with other divers in the area.
Beach recommends you check the conditions of the water online or with your local dive shop before descending on your next adventure.
"We worry around here about currents. Tides and currents are a big consideration of diving in Puget Sound," Beach said. "You want to check dive charts and current charts and stuff like that to plan your dive."
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This week's blog comes from Natalia Pugach, a Director in our Restructuring Modelling team.
High profile failures, profit warnings and asset write-downs have put the spotlight on how well companies are measuring their performance and delivering against their forecasts and investment hypotheses.
Deals, debt arrangements and forecasts made in brighter times are coming under greater scrutiny. Trust is in shorter supply and companies need to be more mindful of how well they are tracking their performance and meeting stakeholders' expectations everyday – but particularly as they approach pivotal capital events.
In this blog, I'll look at why tracking and delivering against expectations has become more problematic and how and where companies can use analytics to create better outcomes.
A more difficult market to read…
In Q1 2018, almost half of UK companies issuing profit warnings had already warned in the last year. For a quarter of companies warning in Q1 2018, this was at least their third profit alert in the last 12 months.
This increasing incidence of multiple profit warnings suggests that more companies are facing an increasing struggle: to tap into more limited growth; to adapt to rapid changes in their markets; and – more fundamentally – to get accurate grip on their numbers. Profit warnings are essentially companies alerting the stock market that they won't meet market expectations – and for some companies to setting expectations is getting harder.
Sometimes this is due to unavoidable shocks. But too often it's due to companies failing to forecast accurately because they don't have an accurate picture of how their whole business is performing. This could be due to a number of interconnected reasons, which could include failure to track useful or relevant data or an inability to make the most of and properly interpret the data that is available.
In today's fast moving economic, political and digital climate it has undoubtedly become more difficult to make predictions and to know what and how to track. But this is a vital battle to win. Profit warnings in Q1 2018 triggered an average 19.3% fall in share price on the day of warning – the highest since mid-2016 – with a much higher price paid by companies who have lost the trust of lenders and other stakeholders.
The forecasting battle
|Potential for shocks
|2018 has thrown up a series of geo-political, policy and price uncertainties, from increasing geopolitical risks in the Middle East and Europe, to the trade wars, ongoing Brexit uncertainties, a rise in emerging market stresses and oil moving to $80 a barrel.
|Currency volatility
|Diverging polices and uncertainty around the pace of monetary tightening continues to drive currency volatility in 2018. Exchange rate changes triggered the highest number of UK profit warnings since mid-2014 in Q1 2018
|Competitive stress
|Low levels of insolvency in this recovery have left many sectors with significant overcapacity, generating intense competition. 'Disruptive' new entrants and a technological revolution have added to the competitive tension.
|New models
|Historical trends and relationships are a poor guide to the future. New economic, business and behavioural models are required to predict demand. Technological changes are rapidly altering the way we live, work and shop.
…which could have broader implications
What this all illustrates is the need for all managers and stakeholders to keep closer eye on forecasts and performance – and not just within listed companies. This is a very different world to which many PE deals came to market and in which many companies made M&A growth and synergy assumptions. Companies must of course keep adapting their model – which we're increasingly seeing through additional investment and M&A. But it's vital too that they continue to optimise performance and don't lose sight of the everyday numbers and how they are stacking up.
This is especially important in the lead up to pivotal capital events such as IPOs, refinancing and asset sales, where last minute concerns over the robustness of the forecasts, and therefore performance, could scupper a deal.
Looking ahead, hitting the numbers being forecast right now in M&A and PE investment hypotheses could become increasingly challenging, with all the difficulties discussed so far compounded by the rising multiples being paid in today's competitive markets. Competition for quality assets is fierce and PE valuations have reached new heights, with the average EV/EBITDA multiple closing in on 11x last year, the highest since the financial crisis, according to Pitchbook.
Meanwhile, the refinancing hump also keeps moving away. The speculative grade peak is now 2024, according to S&P. But at some point a substantial amount of debt will need to be refinanced on less attractive terms. In Europe first-lien debt to EBITDA ratios have now reached pre-crisis levels.
Do you already have the answer?
The problem we've found with many companies is that the sheer amount and complexity of data available means that they're not always looking in the right places or getting the most out of their data. Essentially they have too much information and limited insight. Business leaders may be focusing on operational and commercial KPIs, without focusing enough on the financial ones. What might look like insights may also be unreliable or slow due to errors in manual processes.
Data that is misunderstood, misanalysed or overlooked represents unmeasured risk and a missed opportunity. In the face of growing competition and complexity, business success requires a new approach based on fact based decision-making – one that allows organisations to continuously track performance reliably and in a transparent way and one which allows companies to identify opportunities quickly, wherever they are in their deal cycle. This is why companies are increasing using financial and non-financial modelling and data analytics to improve the effectiveness of financial, operational and commercial KPIs.
Questions to ask…
Can your data tell you…?
- The real cost to serve? Where are the opportunities to reduce costs?
- Where you can improve productivity? What are your real people costs – including your contingent workforce?
- How you can release and manage cash and working capital? Do you have cash-flow visibility across your business?
- Where you can optimise your supply chain? Do you understand your supply chain cost drivers? Are your stock levels are the right level?
- How your stores/business units perform under different operating conditions? Why does performance vary? How can you optimise returns?
- If your resources are sufficient to deliver our strategic growth plans? Does our business have the skills and capacity to deliver on your business strategy?
Improving data visibility across the business can have significant benefits, from increasing the speed and quality of decision making, increasing investor confidence, improving governance and focus attention and effort on what really matters – all of which goes straight to the bottom line.


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Helping people win at work.BetterWorks is similar to Lattice and has rich integrations to other tools you use in your business. Making updates based on progress, learnings, and wins becomes easier with these integrations. Disclosure: I know Kris (@kduggan), the CEO at BetterWorks, from his time at previous companies. He is a fantastic guy, and the conference they are about to put on (https://www.goalsummit.com/) may have some helpful tips outside of selecting a tool.
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What are the advantages? What are the drawbacks? You can read Larry Kryski's paper Creating a Proportional Representation Electoral System That Works.
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In with the winter weather, in with dry skin. What to do? Fortunately, with a few adjustments to your routine it's easy to combat harsh weather and leave you fresh faced. Here are four winter skin care tips:
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Adjust your beauty routine. You may need to use more or less of certain products as your skin changes with the temps, or even the day (think dry morning-after-holiday-party-skin). Our Kari Gran line includes a mineral Hydrating Tonic and Essential Serum you mix together to create a fresh batch of lotion. It's easy to adjust the moisturizing level by changing the ratio of tonic to serum pumps. The beauty of being able to customize is that you don't have to buy different products just because the seasons change.
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Not seeing the state you're looking for? See all states here.
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Renters will receive a discount if they also insure their vehicle with PEMCO.
Condo association insurance only covers the exterior structure of your building. However, a personal condo policy (HO6) covers replacement or repair costs of drywall, flooring, light fixtures, plumbing, other internal amenities, and any upgrades you've made within your condo unit.
Available coverages and discounts may vary by state, but will most likely include:
To purchase an umbrella insurance policy with PEMCO, you must first have a home and auto insurance policy with them. Additionally, your auto liability coverage must be at least $250,000/$500,000 for bodily injury and $100,000 for property damage. You also must carry homeowner liability limits of $300,000.
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You can buy umbrella insurance at limits of $1 million, $2 million, or $3 million.
PEMCO offers coverage for your boat and other watercraft vehicles year-round. This protection is valid whether your boat is docked or out in the water and include inland bodies of water in the contiguous United States and Canada. Customers are also covered up to 75 miles off the Pacific Coast of either the contiguous United States or Canada (including the Queen Charlotte Islands, but not more than 12 miles off their western shore).
Available coverages and discounts may vary by state, but will most likely include:
Insurify lets you freely compare accurate car insurance quotes and discounts from top national and regional insurance companies in a matter of minutes. You can choose between coverage levels and adjust deductibles to ensure you're not just getting the cheapest policy, but the most appropriate one, too. Users save an average of $489 a year when they buy a new insurance policy through Insurify.
Think of Insurify as your personalized, online insurance agent. Insurify's platform uses the latest in AI to match you with real, accurate, and bindable car insurance quotes based on your driver history and budget. Insurify is not an insurance company and will not share the information you share on the site with any third party.
Insurify is the top-rated and most-rated insurance comparison website in America. Unlike comparison sites that just take your information and sell it to the highest bidder, Insurify is built on trust and empowerment. No matter your license record, budget, or regional background, Insurify is committed to securing the cheapest and best deals that work for you.
PEMCO (which stands for Public Employees Mutual Insurance Company) was founded in Seattle in 1942 by Robert J. Handy. PEMCO Mutual Insurance Company originally provided car and home insurance to members of the local School Employees Credit Union of Washington.
PEMCO is the American Northwest region's largest regional provider of auto, home, boat, renter/condo, and umbrella insurance. The company serves over half a million policyholders across the states of Washington and Oregon. A mutual insurance company, PEMCO is owned by its customers.
The company has a Better Business Bureau (BBB) rating of A+. PEMCO is based in Washington state, with headquarters in Seattle and two other offices in Lynnwood and Spokane.
Contact Information
Headquarters address: 1300 Dexter Avenue N., Seattle, Washington 98109
Phone number: (206) 628-4000; 1 (800) 467-3626 (toll-free)
Website: www.pemco.com
good customer service. offered ideas on how to lower my rate.
While pleased w/PEMCO's cheap rates, the fiasco that passed as "service" for towing my dead car {22 miles from Portland, OR to an outlying small town} last Sat. afternoon was so disappointing I am determined to change companies.
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While websites are still valuable assets for SEO, blogging, and getting content out there…
Many times they just aren't as effective by themselves when it comes to generating leads.
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Awareness is all about using traffic to get your targeted audience to exactly what they are looking for. This can be done using a lead magnet which I will be covering more in this post.
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You gain your targeted audience's interest by them entering you their email address.
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Getting closer to the moment of truth (so to speak). There's actually many decisions a prospect can make when it comes to your online marketing funnel.
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This is where money is exchanged for the value, information, and or product you are recommending, and should be the biggest goal to aim for.
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Here's what you'll want to include on your lead capture page.
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When someone comes to your lead capture page, they need to know what they will be getting in exchange for their email.
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Just make sure you go with something that your targeted audience REALLY wants.
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Now that they know what they will be getting, you want to include a headline on your lead capture page that will REALLY entice them to enter their email on the page.
I'm going to show you an example of a lead capture page that converted very nicely on Facebook.
I was giving away a lead magnet that showed online business owners how to get higher optin rates (which the stats above prove that simplicity works).
As you can see, the headline was "Copy My 4 Step Process Used To Get 71% Optin Rates".
This did very well for a variety of reasons:
- Online business owners understand the value of higher optin rates (cheaper leads).
- Online business owners are always looking to get more leads (at cheaper costs too).
- It hit one of the biggest problems for businesses (getting leads effectively).
So next up we have…
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This is usually a little extra to add in to help with any objections.
For this, you need to read your headline as your targeted audience and ask yourself, what might stop them from entering their email and moving forward?
In this case, a common concern is that their niche or business is "different".
In reality: it isn't.
The same business principles work for whatever business or niche you're involved in.
That's why I included "This Works Regardless Of Your Niche".
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Lastly you want to have some type of call to action.
In my example above, it was the Download Now button which opened up a drop down for them to enter their email, and I also had a blue clickable link that opened up the same drop down.
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So let's move onto the last part of this post.
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- A/B split testing (which is AT LEAST another $25+ a month of savings).
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So what exactly does that mean for YOU?
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Pretty cool, right? Lead Generation London
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I'm sure that after reading this, you've seen just how much value ClickFunnels delivers…
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Thanks again for stopping by and expressing interest in Lead Generation London…
I hope you learned something new when it comes to generating leads online.


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Northeast Georgia Students Accepted to West Point and Naval Academy Prep School
"Emmi Schakat and Jack Haller have made their dedication to service clear, and I'm proud of their commitment to protecting our nation. These students have excelled across the board, and I look forward to seeing their careers unfold at West Point and the Naval Academy Preparatory School."
January 11, 2018
What Tax Reform Means for Northeast Georgia
With the president's signature, conservative tax reform became the law of our land this December. America's unified Republican government has kept its promise to inject fairness, simplicity and common sense into a broken tax code, and the new system took effect on New Year's Day.
January 11, 2018
The Music Modernization Act Will Provide a Needed Update to Copyright Laws
Can music lovers count on a robust pipeline of tunes to carry them into the future? Absent substantive changes to the system that has disenfranchised creators, songwriters, publishers and even digital providers have their doubts.
January 8, 2018
Press Release
Collins Praises Rural Broadband Executive Order
"I introduced the Gigabit Opportunity Act because northeast Georgians have been waiting for meaningful infrastructure investments to bring high-speed internet to rural areas, and today's executive order helps move us closer to that goal."
January 8, 2018
Press Release
Support for Music Modernization Act Grows
Music industry stakeholders continue to add their support to the bill, which would offer the most substantial update to music copyright law since 1998.
January 8, 2018
Press Release
Gainesville Students to Attend Air Force and Naval Academies
Cameron Sturdivant will join the class of 2022 at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and Chase Nufer will attend the U.S. Naval Academy.


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"Rebate cards are a colossal ripoff because sellers who long ago figured out how to make rebates difficult to obtain have now found a clever way to make them difficult to spend too," said consumer advocate Edgar Dworsky, who runs the web site ConsumerWorld.org. "These are just inherently deceptive the way they are advertised."
They are considered so deceptive that Canada recently issued guidelines to stop companies from using the word rebate when issuing consumers a card instead of a check.
Use of rebate cards is growing rapidly. In 2008, more than $4 billion worth were issued -- up more than 50 percent over 2007, according to CreditCards.com.
Not only are these cards not actual rebates -- although a handful of companies allow consumers to draw cash from them at ATMs -- they come with hurdles that will keep all but the most industrious users from spending the full amount.
"The consumer has to go to the web site of the issuer and put in the password and find out how much money is left. If you go to the retailer without knowing the exact amount on the card they can't take the card," said Barbara Anthony, undersecretary of the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation.. "We are leaving money on the table that belongs to us because some retailers make it very difficult to find out what's left on the cards. Millions of people across the country have these cards."
Little government action has been taken so far about the cards in the U.S. partly because of how silently the money is drained away from the consumer and back to the company.
Mitch Katz, a spokesman for the FTC said, said his agency is aware of the issue and welcomes any consumer complaints about problems with the cards.
AT&T, which issues the cards in certain offers with its wireless phones, took a hit earlier this year when New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced he had reached a $2.63 million agreement with the company over "a misleading and deceptive sales promotion involving rebate offers that were fulfilled with onerous and condition-laden rebate cards."
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"It's hard to take a lot of money from people – but it's very easy to take small amounts of money from millions of people," Anthony said.
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Leftists are agitating for an FEC attack on right-wing news sources on the basis of their fevered Russia conspiracy theory.
The deep state might use an FEC attack to harass and intimidate news sites like Infowars, Breitbart, and even Drudge, based on the pretense that they spent Russian money to do Russia's bidding. That is the height of hypocrisy since the deep state doesn't hesitate to spend money to influence Russia's elections through the National Endowment for Democracy, and portrays any move to keep foreign money out of Russian politics as a move towards repression of free speech.
It is also, of course, a totally baseless accusation. But the lying hypocrites have to keep on using the government to circumvent the Bill of Rights so everyone can see them for what they are.
The Washington Examiner reports, "New fears Drudge, InfoWars, Breitbart could face Dem FEC 'inquisition'"
A revived bid by a top Federal Election Commission Democrat could lead to an "inquisition" against conservative media outlets like the Drudge Report, InfoWars and Breitbart that take political advertising and are overseen by right-leaning owners or editors, according to critics.
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The plan, set for discussion at Thursday's FEC meeting, could open the door to political subpoenas targeting the websites, their editorial news decisions, and their owners, maybe even Matt Drudge and Alex Jones, according to an expert analysis.
In her effort targeting foreign influence in federal and state elections, Commissioner Ellen Weintraub would probe spending by overseas sources and even partially-foreign-owned U.S. firms on campaigns, including their media buys. Foreign influence is illegal in elections.
She said that tackling foreign influence in elections could be the FEC's finest hour, adding, "I believe that this Commission can indeed rise to the challenge of understanding what happened in the 2016 election and plugging any legal or procedural holes that could allow foreign actors to interfere with our future elections."
Read the entire Washington Examiner story.
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In lieu of taking some time off now, I decided to go ahead and schedule my next exam, Schematic Design, for Sunday, July 15. There's a Timbers match the night before against the LA Galaxy, so my goal is to be done by then so I can go enjoy it. It's probably a long shot, but I'm hoping that we'll have a hell of a shut out against them like we did last year. A girl can dream, right? Also, since we're on the subject of the mighty PTFC, the new Adidas commercial with Darlington Nagbe and the Timbers Army featured is pretty cool (I can almost feel the green smoke in my lungs watching it).
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Pakistani actors Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan have been targeted by the Shiv Sena. The right-
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Khan, who made his Bollywood debut with the 2014 film Khoobsurat, is working on a number of Hindi films, including Dharma Productions' Kapoor & Sons and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.
Mahira will make her Bollywood debut with Rahul Dholakia's Raees, in which she stars alongside Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
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The Shiv Sena prevented Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali from performing in Mumbai earlier this month.
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Peter Bjorn and John are a Swedish Indie pop band, formed in Stockholm in 1999 and named after the first names of the band's members: Peter Morén, Björn Yttling and John Eriksson, known in his solo work as Hortlax Cobra. Yttling also worked as producer for the band's first four albums and Seaside Rock. They are best known for the 2006 single "Young Folks", which featured Victoria Bergsman, formerly of The Concretes, and was a top 20 hit in the UK Singles Chart, as well as being featured in football video game FIFA 08, the singing game Lips, and as the opening track in the Pilot episode of Gossip Girl. It was also named NME's second-best track of 2006, beaten only by "Over and Over" by Hot Chip. In Australia it was voted number 16 in the annual Triple J Hottest 100 for 2006.
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Ian Culverhouse to Cambridge United rumours are bad timing for King's Lynn Town
PUBLISHED: 13:49 17 April 2018
Archant 2018
King's Lynn Town boss Ian Culverhouse is a wanted man – and you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to wonder why, as CHRIS LAKEY reports
It was bound to happen – King's Lynn Town manager Ian Culverhouse is being linked with another job.
These things happen when you take your team into their league's play-offs, having got within a good shout of the league title.
The 'interested party' are Cambridge United, who currently have Joe Dunne (with whom Culverhouse worked at Colchester) in interim charge until the end of the season. For the record, the club are saying nothing - they believe it isn't a story so neither the manager nor the owner, Stephen Cleeve, is commenting. Which doesn't prevent everyone else...
It's perhaps best to make clear that the link between Culverhouse and Cambridge came from a fans' discussion forum and has a lot of 2+2=4 about it.
Why wouldn't a league club want Culverhouse in charge? He has done a magnificent job at The Walks this season and is a coach/manager/assistant manager/whatever you want to call him to be coveted. It's a feather in the cap of the football club that he is being talked about in such terms – it's just the timing that stinks.
The stylish Linnets are trying to finish second in the Southern Premier, which guarantees home advantage in the play-offs. Culverhouse is facing a few untimely injury problems – losing your best players to the aches and strains of a season isn't good, but the squad is thin, the strength in depth doesn't go very far.
Then there is the relationship between manager and owner: the view from the stands is that it is strained. There is no real evidence to suggest that is true – I saw them chatting away amiably recently but, again, that doesn't perhaps reflect anything much either.
But when Culverhouse speaks publicly about the club letting the players down because of the state of the pitch – as Culverhouse did after last Thursday's 2-1 home win over play-off rivals Kettering – then it is clear that something may be amiss. The manager was right: the pitch was awful and for it not to have been worked on in the previous five days was either an alarming oversight or poor management of a major part of what the manager is trying to achieve.
The manager is hugely supportive of his squad, but the last thing they need now is uncertainty in any direction: sadly, it comes with the success Culverhouse has achieved.
If I owned Cambridge United I would be all over Culverhouse like a rash. Ditto if I owned King's Lynn Town.
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SPO, buggyraces, licence seminar
What´s happened since the buggy WC?
Thursday evening I drove for the last time this year to SPO, because of the buggyraces.
Any training on Friday was dropped because it was windless and rainy.
On Saturday the conditions were much better and in strong offshore winds four Master races and three Open races were held. Even though I like these conditions I had really bad luck and had in every race collisions and folded kites. After a cold night with frozen windows in the bus, we drove Sunday the 5th and last Masterrace in light winds, which I could win. Despite from this the Saturday took me the leading and kicked me to place four.
I stayed for some more days in SPO to take the last passable kitesurf temperatures and to meet other Teamriders. The forecast was promising, so we drove, after a nice landboardsession to Büsum. Unfortunately a friend of me had a really bad kitesurf accident. I wish her all the best, a fast recovery and much energy to become fast fit again. In order that something doesn´t happen again, ill advice all to leaf enough space to all danger spots, especially in the lee. Thats means far more then one line lengths. In case you drift to close, release your kite before you risk your health, also this means some effort. My motivation for kitesurfing was not big after this, but I stayed in SPO for some more days.
After one day home of repairing and preparing I drove Friday morning with Pascal to the first KLB Instructor Course taking place on the kitearea in Münsterappel. We had much to peruse, and that others were kiting in best winds didn´t made it easier for us. After a written exam on Sunday we could finally kite a bit ourself. We didn´t received results yet, but i´m confident to passed it. Then you can gain the KLB licence from me in the near future.
Whats happening next?
At the weekend there´s a back country race on the kitearea, we can kite in Wanlo with increased regularity, which is fresh mowed and in 10 days takes the KLB final place there.
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Article 656 shall hereafter read as follows:
Any person who shall attempt to steal, or entice away a slave, the property of another, shall be confined in the Penitentiary, not less than five nor more than fifteen years.
Article 657 shall hereafter read as follows:
The offence of stealing a slave is complete within the meaning of Article 655, by taking the slave into possession, either by his consent or forcibly, and removing him a distance however short, from the possession or premises of his employer or [2]176/1048[3] owner, with the design to claim the ownership of such slave, or otherwise dispose of the same.
Article 660 shall hereafter read as follows:
An attempt to entice away a slave is the use of any means forcible or persuasive, which may be calculated to induce such slave to abandon the service of his master or employer, and accompany the offender, with the view to deprive the owner of his property.


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WAIT! ALL IS NOT LOST. The circumspect Harry S. Dingey writes for us once again:
So. It is exactly like I have been preaching for the last 15 years since America joined NAFTA and the WTO. At some point the American working class will totally run out of money from having all the better jobs moved off shore to China where the international companies can hire slave labor for $2/day. American Workers have maxed out their credit cards and now working for minimum wages flipping hamburgers at McDonalds and Sonic. The Chinese workers who worked for slave labor can not afford to purchase the same items they manufactured. So the game was forced to stop. This is exactly where we are right now in America.
The American President and Congress have not figured out yet they are pushing on a string with all of these Trillions of Dollars in Bailouts because what they are doing is creating a Temporary Consumer Product Demand.
Since the bailouts are creating only a temporary product demand it will fizzle out very, very soon and the Depression will continue. But, America will be even worse off because will be burdened with all this extra national debt created from all these bailouts. They just don't get it. GLOBALISM will not work under any circumstances it is just that simple.
Solution? PULL OUT OF NAFTA and the WTO and stop all these trillion dollar bailouts and things will start to improve over night. Then go back to accomplishing international trade the exact way America did for well over 215 years and America will become that shining light on the hill again.
I'd like to see this happen in my lifetime, or it may never happen again. The numbers are just not there.
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...2004, rumours were flying that Tom Ford and Domenico De Sole were going to buy Versace. A source said; "There was a catch - they would give her big money but Donatella would have no role whatsoever in the company. No designing, nothing - they just wanted her out." Despite reports saying the Versace company had turned down the offer, a rep for the Italian label slammed the gossip by stating: "This is not true. They never approached her and she is not selling."
...2005, Miuccia Prada cast Hollywood actress Kim Basinger for Prada's spring/summer 2006 advert campaign. Basinger was joined by actress Camilla Belle and photographed in Paris by creative pair Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
...2006, Sienna Miller debuted her first clothing line, Twenty8Twelve, with sister Savannah. The 80-piece collection was inspired by Dickensian London, Patti Smith and Beat poetry. "I've always loved fashion, and Savannah got a First in design at Saint Martins," Sienna said. "We hadn't thought to pursue it together, but this just happened organically. And setting up a label with your sister is a lot of fun - there haven't been any fights yet."


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Clinical-Community Psychology Alumna to Expand Her Nonprofit to Help the Homeless Alumni Profile
Meet Kristee Cammack
- Job Title & Employer
- President and Owner, A Giving Heart
- Majors
- Public Relations & Advertising, Clinical-community Psychology-M.A.
- Graduation
- 2005, 2015
- Hometown
- Pittsburgh, Pa
- High School
- Westinghouse Academy High School
- Now Living In
- Penn Hills, Pa.
- Hobbies & Interests
- Working with children, arts, crafts, music, fishing, canoeing and helping others
"Kristee has a pulse and an ear for people which is critical in community-based work. She also exudes compassion for the cause which gives her the drive to always reach and obtain goals for the organization that many would never believe could be obtainable."
"In my nonprofit organization, I often find myself seeing more potential in the children than they see in themselves. The knowledge and experiences I have gained in my undergraduate and graduate studies at Point Park University has inspired me to push these children to their full potential because I know they can do more and be more."
Read WESA's story featuring Kristee.
Tell us about the inspiration behind your organization, A Giving Heart.
A Giving Heart was inspired by a social work class I took. The professor gave the students a challenge to visit a place we wanted to change and I decided to visit a homeless shelter. During my visit, I learned that husbands and wives could not stay together and if there were children, they had to stay with another family member.
I grew up in a close-knit family and could not believe that families were being separated. I wanted to change the well-being of these families and decided to incorporate other aspects of programming to take a holistic approach.
A Giving Heart is a two-fold program, a homeless shelter for families (which will be coming in the near future) and a community center. We have been operating a community center and are in the fourth year of our after-school program. We hold monthly activities such as family fun night, a bi-weekly soup kitchen, a free summer basketball camp and we provide meals through our summer feeding program.
Why did you decide to pursue an M.A. in clinical-community psychology from Point Park?
I pursued an M.A. in clinical-community psychology because I wanted to get a better understanding of how to work with children and adults to improve their mental health and well-being.
For eight years, I chose not to go back to school because of the cost. However, one day a brochure from Point Park came in the mail stating they they were offering a new graduate program in line with human services, mental health, education and community development. I felt like everything the program was offering would help me service my clients to the best of my ability.
Every day, I strive to give my clients all that I have in order for them to see the possibilities of their future.
In what ways has the M.A. program helped you with the work you do?
After graduating with my M.A. degree, I worked as a TSS, MT and BSC for a mental health provider. Gaining experiences from these positions, along with my internship when I was in the M.A. program, has allowed me to work effectively with the children enrolled in my after-school program who have behavioral problems. I'm also able to provide parents with techniques to address problems and build collaborations with the schools where their children attend.
What are your favorite Point Park memories?
My favorite Point Park memories are working in the newspaper office on the opinion stories and laughing with Ashley Johnson as we talked about the Steelers.
During my graduate school years, I enjoyed the cohesiveness of my cohort. Everyone helped and encouraged each other to reach their full potential. I have not experienced a group more happy to see you succeed and more willing to share their life experiences than the one I had at Point Park. I would not trade any of my Point Park experiences or the professors I had for anything.
Final thoughts?
In my nonprofit organization, I often find myself seeing more potential in the children than they see in themselves. The knowledge and experiences I have gained in my undergraduate and graduate studies at Point Park University has inspired me to push these children to their full potential because I know they can do more and be more. I have learned to not settle for the surface answers and shoulder shrugs, but to really strive to reach people. I am honored to be a graduate of Point Park and I encourage all students to reach for the sky.
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Melissa Range is the recipient of a 2007 "Discovery"/The Nation Award and a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writersĺ Award.
This year, she is a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her poems have recently appeared or are
forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Image, The Paris Review, and Poetry London (UK). Originally
from East Tennessee, Range now calls Atlanta home.
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Preoperative neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a predictive factor for survival in nonmetastatic colorectal cancer
Kaptan Gülben1, Uğur Berberoğlu1, Bahadır Öndeş2, Osman Uyar3, Onur Can Güler1, Sevim Turanlı1
1 Department of General Surgery, University of Health Sciences, Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey2 Department of General Surgery, Erciş State Hospital, Van, Turkey3 Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Teaching and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Correspondence Address:Kaptan Gülben, Kardelen Mah. 2040. Sok., 2B/27, 06370, Yenimahalle, Ankara TurkeySource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneDOI: 10.4103/jcrt.JCRT_489_18
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/jcrt.JCRT_489_18
Background: The pretreatment ratio of neutrophils to lymphocytes (NLR) has been suggested as an indicator of poor outcome in various cancers. This study aimed to determine whether the preoperative NLR may be a predictor of survival in patients who underwent curative resection for colorectal cancer (CRC).Materials and Methods: The records of 219 CRC patients underwent curative resection between 2008 and 2014 were retrospectively evaluated. NLR was calculated by preoperative complete blood counts. The effects of age, gender, anatomic location, histologic grade, lymphovascular invasion, pathological T, pathological N, and tumor-node-metastasis stages and NLR on disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were analyzed using univariate and multivariate analyses. The optimal cutoff value for NLR was determined using receiver operating characteristic curve analysis.Results: The best cutoff value of NLR was 2.8. Multivariate analysis showed that NLR was not a predictor of DFS. However, NLR was found as an independent prognostic factor for OS (Hazard ratio, 5.4; 95% confidence interval, 2.3–12.5; P = 0.0001).Conclusion: A preoperative NLR of more than 2.8 might be an independent predictor for OS in patients with CRC. This simple and routinely available laboratory parameter may be used as a useful marker for identifying patients with a worse prognosis.
Keywords: Colorectal cancer, inflammation, neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio, prognosis, survival


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Health Highlights: Nov. 17, 2017
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Human Cases of Salmonella Rise to 66 in U.S. Outbreak Linked to Pet Turtles
The number of people sickened in a multistate salmonella outbreak linked to pet turtles has risen to 66, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said late Thursday.
Since the last update on Aug. 29, 29 more people have been sickened and seven more have been hospitalized, bringing the total number of hospitalizations to 23. No deaths have been reported.
Five more states have reported illnesses, bringing the total number of states affected by the outbreak to 18.
The outbreak began in the spring and is expected to continue because many people are unaware of the risk of salmonella infection from pet turtles, even if they look healthy and clean, the CDC said.
FDA Announces Tighter Regulation of Stem Cell Therapies
Tighter regulations that target doctors who promote dangerous stem cell therapies will be introduced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
On Thursday, the agency outlined a plan to regulate stem cell procedures and said it will focus enforcement efforts on "bad actors" who inject stem cells into the bloodstream, nervous system or eyes, the Associated Press reported.
These procedures pose the greatest risks to patients.
"We're going to be prioritizing places where we see products -- not just being promoted inappropriately -- but putting patients at potential risk," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told reporters on a conference call, the AP reported.
Hundreds of private stem cell clinics have opened across the United States in the last decade. Many offer stem cell injections for a variety of diseases, including arthritis, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's.
The cost of these treatments range from $5,000 to $50,000, but there is little evidence that they are effective or safe, the AP reported.
The FDA's announcement is a "positive sign" and suggests that many clinics will now have to get FDA permission before offering experimental stem cell therapies, according to Paul Knoepfler, a stem cell researcher at the University of California, Davis.
"Now that the FDA's policies are clear, will it back them up with action?" Knoepfler told the AP. "Does it have the resources?"
American Heart Association President Suffers Heart Attack at Group's Annual Meeting
The president of the American Heart Association suffered a heart attack at the group's annual meeting.
John Warner, 52, suffered a "minor" episode Monday morning and is in stable condition after doctors inserted a stent to open a blocked artery, the AHA said in a statement, the Washington Post reported.
Before his heart attack, Warner spoke at the conference about his family's history of heart disease.
"John wanted to reinforce that this incident underscores the important message that he left us with in his presidential address yesterday -- that much progress has been made, but much remains to be done," Nancy Brown, the AHA's chief executive officer, said in the statement, the Post reported.
"Cardiac events can still happen anytime and anywhere," she emphasized.
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Here's the irony. Sometimes the less talented get ahead while the more talented stay hidden. Your success has less to do with your talent than it has to do with your confidence.
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Potato art, art and mental health: Four art happenings this week
Surreal cityscapes, artists working at the intersection of art and mental health, anti-colonial documentary-making and a bit of navel-oriented art make up what to see in the art world this week.
Deborah Aschheim: Artist Talk and Opening Reception
Where it's at: Bethel University, 3900 Bethel Dr., St. Paul
What it's about: In 2015, artist Deborah Aschheim created "Camelot," a site-specific series of illuminated white sculptures for the Los Angeles International Airport. The collection offered a mish-mash of urban architecture, buildings from different cities, hybrids of different towers, and ghosts of buildings long ago torn down, playing with the state of disorientation travelers may feel as they wander jet-lagged through airports. For "Landmark," her new series of work at Bethel University, Aschheim builds on "Camelot" with new sculptures and drawings that further investigate the notions of memory, myth making, and geography.
Why you should go: Travel to imagined places with Aschheim's dream-like cityscape creations, and find out a bit about the ongoing project at the artist talk.
When: 6-8 p.m. Wednesday
Where it's at: Circa Gallery, 1125 Buchanan St. NE, Minneapolis
What it's about: For World Mental Health Day, UCare and Circa Gallery will use art to raise mental health visibility. The juried show includes individual pieces by 21 artists, as well as collaboratively created works.
Why you should go: What do mental health, art, and social change have to do with each other? Find out at this exhibition at Circa's new space in northeast Minneapolis.
When: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday; the show is on view through Saturday, October 12.
Where it's at: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 Third Ave. S., Minneapolis
What it's about: Hanoi-based film/media artist Nguyen Trinh Thi runs Hanoi DocLab, a center for documentary and experimental films and video art. This week she will be speaking, via web cam, about her latest work. The talk is in conjunction with the premiere of her new hybrid essay-film, Fifth Cinema (2018), which explores how film can be used to reclaim indigenous history and land from colonization. The screening and artist talk is part of Mia's latest exhibition, "Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975."
Why you should go: Nguyen Trinh Thi's Fifth Cinema draws on pop culture, government films, found footage, home movies, and YouTube videos to deconstruct power and illuminate new ways of representation.
When: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Tickets are $10. Reserve online here or call 612-870-3000.
Where it's at: Future Tense Gallery, 2205 California St., the California Building, Suite 310, Minneapolis
What it's about: Artist Elizabeth Garvey meditates on origins, connection, and loss in this solo exhibition that utilizes everything from casts of bellybuttons to raw potatoes. The title of the show, "Omphalos," comes from the Ancient Greek word meaning bellybutton, and also refers to a sacred stone in Delphi that, according to myth, is the center of the world.
Why you should go: There's not enough potato art in the world. Get to this show while you have a chance.


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I'm currently working on a new design for my personal website.
>>> http://guillaumeb.com/prototype/
I'm not finished at all but I need to get some feedbacks though for I'm going to something i'm not too familiar with : constrasting colors.
Overall I want something rather simple, even minimalist, but I'm thinking I could also end up with something a bit colorful.
What do you think ? Is the website readable enough for you ?
FYI I'm coming from this grey scale design :
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