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This week’s cover captures the full spectrum of color found in our East End landscape. No stranger to Dan’s Papers covers, Keith Mantell continues to evolve his artistic practice. “Shard of Light” (2016, oil on linen) exemplifies Mantell’s fluid ability to seamlessly transition between gently abstracted landscapes and figurative works. From his home on the North Fork, Mantell gives us insight into the vision behind his paintings.
What’s your painting process like?
Usually I like to paint en plein air, so I’ll drive around and look for spots—sometimes I drive around and find something I think looks good and then the next day, come back and decide that it’s not so great. Sometimes when I have my camera I’ll shoot something and then decide to come back to it. This [photograph], in particular, is a field somewhere in Southold. That day I wasn’t painting on site, so I came home and three months later came across it. I look for sections of the photograph that work and then crop it to create what I want to work with.
I’m teaching a class at the East End Arts Council in June and it’s about process and inspiration. I’m going to be teaching my way of doing it. If you’re a painter, you can incorporate some of the ideas into your own work. Sometimes, when I go out and paint, the view isn’t really great, so it’s almost like Photoshopping in your head. I thread images in my head together and work on the painting that way. It’s about looking and then remembering what the sensation or value was, in your head, that day. In the end, the painting has to work, it’s not just a matter of replicating what you see in front of you.
The execution matters, too, so you have to know what you’re doing. I always tell people to keep looking at art, from both living and dead artists—all kinds—decorative, abstract. You have to see how they do things, then you begin to pickup little tidbits.
The clouds in the cover image are so lifelike and yet not traditional in the sense of how you usually see clouds in paintings—how did you do these?
Clouds are really hard to do. But you can paint anything as long as you understand where it is in space. A cloud is a form, but somehow it loses its form, so I take the edge of the cloud and play with that. The clouds in this painting I played around with a lot to get them to do something, to not be a dead element. You’re trying to get the painting to have a feeling—a certain day and a certain time. Slick, juicy, not heavy, not loaded…I want the paint to work, teeter on reality and abstract.
Is “Shard of Light” typical of your style?
I like the figure—I love doing that. My style is my language. I think everybody has their own. Everything I’ve ever looked at is filtered through me, and in painting it’s the same thing—style changes, it grows, it’s always evolving. You grow, learn, you change. I’m not the same as I was a week ago.
For more on Keith Mantell and to see other examples of his artwork, visit keithmantell.com. His paintings are currently on display at Fitzgerald Gallery, 48 Main Street, Westhampton Beach. Call 631-288-6419 for hours and information. Keith Mantell’s art course, Advanced Oil Painting: Processes & Inspirations, runs on Thursdays starting June 2. Visit eastendarts.org for more information.

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This week ’s cover captures the full spectrum of color found in our East End landscape . No stranger to Dan ’s Papers covers , Keith Mantell continues to evolve his artistic practice . “ Shard of Light ” ( 2016 , oil on linen ) exemplifies Mantell ’s fluid ability to seamlessly transition between gently abstracted landscapes and figurative works . From his home on the North Fork , Mantell gives us insight into the vision behind his paintings .
 What ’s your painting process like ?
 Usually I like to paint en plein air , so I ’ll drive around and look for spots — sometimes I drive around and find something I think looks good and then the next day , come back and decide that it ’s not so great . Sometimes when I have my camera I ’ll shoot something and then decide to come back to it . This [ photograph ] , in particular , is a field somewhere in Southold . That day I was n’t painting on site , so I came home and three months later came across it . I look for sections of the photograph that work and then crop it to create what I want to work with .
 I ’m teaching a class at the East End Arts Council in June and it ’s about process and inspiration . I ’m going to be teaching my way of doing it . If you ’re a painter , you can incorporate some of the ideas into your own work . Sometimes , when I go out and paint , the view is n’t really great , so it ’s almost like Photoshopping in your head . I thread images in my head together and work on the painting that way . It ’s about looking and then remembering what the sensation or value was , in your head , that day . In the end , the painting has to work , it ’s not just a matter of replicating what you see in front of you .
 The execution matters , too , so you have to know what you ’re doing . I always tell people to keep looking at art , from both living and dead artists — all kinds — decorative , abstract . You have to see how they do things , then you begin to pickup little tidbits .
 The clouds in the cover image are so lifelike and yet not traditional in the sense of how you usually see clouds in paintings — how did you do these ?
 Clouds are really hard to do . But you can paint anything as long as you understand where it is in space . A cloud is a form , but somehow it loses its form , so I take the edge of the cloud and play with that . The clouds in this painting I played around with a lot to get them to do something , to not be a dead element . You ’re trying to get the painting to have a feeling — a certain day and a certain time . Slick , juicy , not heavy , not loaded … I want the paint to work , teeter on reality and abstract .
 Is “ Shard of Light ” typical of your style ?
 I like the figure — I love doing that . My style is my language . I think everybody has their own . Everything I ’ve ever looked at is filtered through me , and in painting it ’s the same thing — style changes , it grows , it ’s always evolving . You grow , learn , you change . I ’m not the same as I was a week ago .
 For more on Keith Mantell and to see other examples of his artwork , visit keithmantell.com . His paintings are currently on display at Fitzgerald Gallery , 48 Main Street , Westhampton Beach . Call 631 - 288 - 6419 for hours and information . Keith Mantell ’s art course , Advanced Oil Painting : Processes & Inspirations , runs on Thursdays starting June 2 . Visit eastendarts.org for more information .


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Víznar IV (Llanos de Corbera), Granada. 17/18.8.1936, 4:45, 400 victims, among them the poet Federico García Lorca, the school teacher Dióscoro Galindo and the anarchists Francisco Galadí and Joaquín Arcollas.
Barranco del Carrizal II, Órgiva, Granada. 11.8.1936 Manuel López López, deputy mayor of Lanjarón, and his sons Antonio, Félix were shot by the Guardia Cívil and Falangists and disappeared in this ravine. On 27.8.1936 a third son, Miguel, was murdered a bit futher down the valley.Víznar II (Barranco de Víznar), Granada. 2.11.1936, the pharmacist and feminist Milagro Almenara Pérez was shot together with Rosario Fregenal Píñar, Rosa Segura Calero and Concha Pertíñez Tabasco.
In this place there were open wells and a shooting range during the years of repression. There may be 400 victims in these wells, among them the poet Federico García Lorca, the school teacher Dióscoro Galindo and the anarchists Francisco Galadí and Joaquín Arcollas. It is a wasteland with the land removed since 1998 when the socialist mayor of Alfacar wanted to make a soccer field in this place where the remains of Lorca were supposed to lie.

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Víznar IV ( Llanos de Corbera ) , Granada . 17/18.8.1936 , 4:45 , 400 victims , among them the poet Federico García Lorca , the school teacher Dióscoro Galindo and the anarchists Francisco Galadí and Joaquín Arcollas .
 Barranco del Carrizal II , Órgiva , Granada . 11.8.1936 Manuel López López , deputy mayor of Lanjarón , and his sons Antonio , Félix were shot by the Guardia Cívil and Falangists and disappeared in this ravine . On 27.8.1936 a third son , Miguel , was murdered a bit futher down the valley . Víznar II ( Barranco de Víznar ) , Granada . 2.11.1936 , the pharmacist and feminist Milagro Almenara Pérez was shot together with Rosario Fregenal Píñar , Rosa Segura Calero and Concha Pertíñez Tabasco .
 In this place there were open wells and a shooting range during the years of repression . There may be 400 victims in these wells , among them the poet Federico García Lorca , the school teacher Dióscoro Galindo and the anarchists Francisco Galadí and Joaquín Arcollas . It is a wasteland with the land removed since 1998 when the socialist mayor of Alfacar wanted to make a soccer field in this place where the remains of Lorca were supposed to lie .


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Excellent pilates studio quality. Comes nearly fully assembled so the final set up is very simple. And the customer service from this company is outstanding! I am so glad I bought it!
What you really need to be prepared for when ordering: This will arrive in a wooden crate, so you will need to dispose of that which isn’t quite as simple as a cardboard box. It’s not a big heavy cumbersome crate, it’s really a nicely designed box that is no more than what is needed for the reformer. The shipper will only move the crate as far as they can with a pallet jack… so that means you need to be able to store it or uncrate it pretty much right away… which does take some planning – you’ll need some tools to get the crate open, once unassembled parts and the glider is removed the frame is about 120 lbs, so you’ll need two reasonably strong people to move it to where it’s going. If there are stairs involved make sure you measure well before purchase – while it’s very low profile it is very long. Once you’ve got the frame where you want it, finally assembly is a breeze and I would not bother with the “expert assembly” option, particularly since they won’t move it for you.
Thank you!! Great quality and love the padding!
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Excellent pilates studio quality . Comes nearly fully assembled so the final set up is very simple . And the customer service from this company is outstanding ! I am so glad I bought it !
 What you really need to be prepared for when ordering : This will arrive in a wooden crate , so you will need to dispose of that which is n’t quite as simple as a cardboard box . It ’s not a big heavy cumbersome crate , it ’s really a nicely designed box that is no more than what is needed for the reformer . The shipper will only move the crate as far as they can with a pallet jack … so that means you need to be able to store it or uncrate it pretty much right away … which does take some planning – you ’ll need some tools to get the crate open , once unassembled parts and the glider is removed the frame is about 120 lbs , so you ’ll need two reasonably strong people to move it to where it ’s going . If there are stairs involved make sure you measure well before purchase – while it ’s very low profile it is very long . Once you ’ve got the frame where you want it , finally assembly is a breeze and I would not bother with the “ expert assembly ” option , particularly since they wo n’t move it for you .
 Thank you ! ! Great quality and love the padding !
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The Fundamentals of Surveying (FS) exam is generally your first step in the process to becoming a professional licensed surveyor (P.S.). It is designed for recent graduates and students who are close to finishing an undergraduate surveying degree from an ABET accredited program. The FS exam is a computer-based exam administered year-round in testing windows at NCEES-approved Pearson VUE test centers.
You can register for the FS exam by logging in to your MyNCEES account and following the onscreen instructions. Special accommodations are available for examinees who meet certain eligibility criteria and sufficiently document their request.
NCEES offers the specifications for the FS exam (PDF) for free download.
Starting July 1, 2017, the computer-based FS introduces a new testing component: alternative item types (AITs). AITs are questions other than traditional multiple-choice questions. Learn more about AITs.
A $175 exam fee is payable directly to NCEES. Some licensing boards may require you to file a separate application and pay an application fee as part of the approval process to qualify you for a seat for an NCEES exam. Your licensing board may have additional requirements.
The NCEES FS Reference Handbook is the only reference material that can be used during the exam. You will be provided with an electronic reference handbook during the exam.
Register or log into MyNCEES to download your free copy of the FS Reference Handbook.
In addition to the FS Reference Handbook, NCEES offers practice exams. These practice exams contain questions that have been used on past exams and questions written just for study materials to give you extra practice.
Learn more about NCEES exam prep materials.
FS exam results are generally available 7–10 days after you take the exam. You will receive an email notification from NCEES with instructions to view your results in your MyNCEES account. Results include information specific to your licensing board regarding how you should proceed based on your performance.
FS pass rates are shown for the January–June or July–December population (updated in July and January, respectively).

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The Fundamentals of Surveying ( FS ) exam is generally your first step in the process to becoming a professional licensed surveyor ( P.S. ) . It is designed for recent graduates and students who are close to finishing an undergraduate surveying degree from an ABET accredited program . The FS exam is a computer - based exam administered year - round in testing windows at NCEES - approved Pearson VUE test centers .
 You can register for the FS exam by logging in to your MyNCEES account and following the onscreen instructions . Special accommodations are available for examinees who meet certain eligibility criteria and sufficiently document their request .
 NCEES offers the specifications for the FS exam ( PDF ) for free download .
 Starting July 1 , 2017 , the computer - based FS introduces a new testing component : alternative item types ( AITs ) . AITs are questions other than traditional multiple - choice questions . Learn more about AITs .
 A $ 175 exam fee is payable directly to NCEES . Some licensing boards may require you to file a separate application and pay an application fee as part of the approval process to qualify you for a seat for an NCEES exam . Your licensing board may have additional requirements .
 The NCEES FS Reference Handbook is the only reference material that can be used during the exam . You will be provided with an electronic reference handbook during the exam .
 Register or log into MyNCEES to download your free copy of the FS Reference Handbook .
 In addition to the FS Reference Handbook , NCEES offers practice exams . These practice exams contain questions that have been used on past exams and questions written just for study materials to give you extra practice .
 Learn more about NCEES exam prep materials .
 FS exam results are generally available 7–10 days after you take the exam . You will receive an email notification from NCEES with instructions to view your results in your MyNCEES account . Results include information specific to your licensing board regarding how you should proceed based on your performance .
 FS pass rates are shown for the January – June or July – December population ( updated in July and January , respectively ) .


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Four Seasons Health Care has confirmed the closure of its Banks O’Dee care home in Aberdeen.
The plans were first announced in February after the home was threatened with closure by the Care Inspectorate.
Chief operating officer, Amanda Cunningham, said Four Seasons had been unable to find an alternative provider for the service, despite its efforts working in partnership with the Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership.
The chief operating officer said the decision had been reached “reluctantly” due to operational challenges at the home that had been exacerbated by difficulties in recruitment and retaining staff with the right skills in a tight jobs market, which had necessitated the high use of temporary agency staff.
“We take very seriously our responsibilities as a care provider and we think ceasing to operate the home is the right thing to do rather than see it continue to struggle,” she added.
The Care Inspectorate issued a damning report on the service earlier this month detailing how residents had waited for long periods for their care due to understaffing (see Damning report issued on Aberdeen care home set to close).

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Four Seasons Health Care has confirmed the closure of its Banks O’Dee care home in Aberdeen .
 The plans were first announced in February after the home was threatened with closure by the Care Inspectorate .
 Chief operating officer , Amanda Cunningham , said Four Seasons had been unable to find an alternative provider for the service , despite its efforts working in partnership with the Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership .
 The chief operating officer said the decision had been reached “ reluctantly ” due to operational challenges at the home that had been exacerbated by difficulties in recruitment and retaining staff with the right skills in a tight jobs market , which had necessitated the high use of temporary agency staff .
 “ We take very seriously our responsibilities as a care provider and we think ceasing to operate the home is the right thing to do rather than see it continue to struggle , ” she added .
 The Care Inspectorate issued a damning report on the service earlier this month detailing how residents had waited for long periods for their care due to understaffing ( see Damning report issued on Aberdeen care home set to close ) .


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realy good work on this game . There is a nice atmosphere .
 Watch my experience playing this game on Twitch . Language German .


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Singapore has overtaken Hong Kong to become the most expensive city in the Asia-Pacific region for expatriates (2nd most expensive in the world) as at July 2018.
Hong Kong is the now 2nd most expensive city in Asia-Pacific and 3rd most expensive city in the world.
Tokyo is the 3rd most expensive city in Asia-Pacific, and 7th globally. Japanese locations have remained high in the rankings with 5 cities in the Asia-Pacific top 10 most expensive places.
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Singapore has overtaken Hong Kong to become the most expensive city in the Asia - Pacific region for expatriates ( 2nd most expensive in the world ) as at July 2018 .
 Hong Kong is the now 2nd most expensive city in Asia - Pacific and 3rd most expensive city in the world .
 Tokyo is the 3rd most expensive city in Asia - Pacific , and 7th globally . Japanese locations have remained high in the rankings with 5 cities in the Asia - Pacific top 10 most expensive places .
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2018-5-23 · WEC Machining Ltd offer a wide range of multi-axis CNC machining and precision engineering services - AS9100 Accredited.
2018-8-14 · Bassett Industries provides ISO 9002 qualified CNC machining services as part of a complete one-stop, tube fabrication turnkey package, which includes designing, fabrication, secondary operations, packaging, and shipping.
Precision CNC Machining & Fabrication. At Alloy Concepts Inc, we use the most advanced technology to machine parts. Clients from all industries trust us to produce high quality parts that pass rigorous testing.
2017-12-7 · Pro-Type Industries offers an unmatched level of value in their CNC Machining services, with a state of the art facility equipped with a CNC 4 axis horizontal mill, four CNC vertical mills, and a high output CNC lathe with auto bar feed, sub-spindle, and live tooling.
Sheng Wei Precision Co., Ltd. Being a professional CNC precision turning machining, and milling machining facility based on Taiwan for medical device, auto parts, power tools, construction, agricultural, electronic & energy parts etc on OEM basis, Sheng Wei Precision has been well-known in the CNC industry worldwide since 1974.
2013-11-5 · Specialists in CNC Machining : CH Clarke Engineering Ltd. is a family run business based in the West Midlands, just five minutes from junction 2 M5.
2018-11-16 · Fictiv's CNC machining services offer a faster way to order complex CNC parts, with 3-axis and 5-axis CNC milling as well as standard and live-tool turning.
2017-4-3 · Production Machining - Medium to High Volume. Production machining is the core competency of Quantum Precision Machining. Our Engineering team plans lean work processes to optimize the efficient production of your parts.
Avanti Engineering Offers Clients High-Value Screw Machining Products At Affordable Prices and Friendly Customer Service. Avanti Engineering is a family-owned company that provides high volume screw machining to businesses in all industries – hydraulics, electronics, aerospace, plumbing and more – beginning at quantities of 1,000 pieces.
2015-10-24 · Since 1944, Fairchild Auto-Mated Parts, Inc. has been dedicated to providing customers with superior custom screw machined parts. Therefore, we make certain that we possess only the most advanced CNC screw machining equipment. Our shop is outfitted with CNC hybrid machines possessing auto bar feeders capable of holding ultra tight tolerances of just (+/-) 0.0001 of an inch.
2017-5-18 · These high pressure turbine blades were manufactured for use in gas turbine assemblies. Hi-Tek Manufacturing is a world class supplier of hot gas path components for the gas turbine industry. Composed of a high temperature super alloy, the high pressure turbine blades are one of the primary components in the hot gas path segment of a turbine and one of Hi-Tek's highest volume products.

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2018 - 5 - 23   ·   WEC Machining Ltd offer a wide range of multi - axis CNC machining and precision engineering services - AS9100 Accredited .
 2018 - 8 - 14   ·   Bassett Industries provides ISO 9002 qualified CNC machining services as part of a complete one - stop , tube fabrication turnkey package , which includes designing , fabrication , secondary operations , packaging , and shipping .
 Precision CNC Machining & Fabrication . At Alloy Concepts Inc , we use the most advanced technology to machine parts . Clients from all industries trust us to produce high quality parts that pass rigorous testing .
 2017 - 12 - 7   ·   Pro - Type Industries offers an unmatched level of value in their CNC Machining services , with a state of the art facility equipped with a CNC 4 axis horizontal mill , four CNC vertical mills , and a high output CNC lathe with auto bar feed , sub - spindle , and live tooling .
 Sheng Wei Precision Co. , Ltd. Being a professional CNC precision turning machining , and milling machining facility based on Taiwan for medical device , auto parts , power tools , construction , agricultural , electronic & energy parts etc on OEM basis , Sheng Wei Precision has been well - known in the CNC industry worldwide since 1974 .
 2013 - 11 - 5   ·   Specialists in CNC Machining : CH Clarke Engineering Ltd. is a family run business based in the West Midlands , just five minutes from junction 2 M5 .
 2018 - 11 - 16   ·   Fictiv 's CNC machining services offer a faster way to order complex CNC parts , with 3 - axis and 5 - axis CNC milling as well as standard and live - tool turning .
 2017 - 4 - 3   ·   Production Machining - Medium to High Volume . Production machining is the core competency of Quantum Precision Machining . Our Engineering team plans lean work processes to optimize the efficient production of your parts .
 Avanti Engineering Offers Clients High - Value Screw Machining Products At Affordable Prices and Friendly Customer Service . Avanti Engineering is a family - owned company that provides high volume screw machining to businesses in all industries – hydraulics , electronics , aerospace , plumbing and more – beginning at quantities of 1,000 pieces .
 2015 - 10 - 24   ·   Since 1944 , Fairchild Auto - Mated Parts , Inc. has been dedicated to providing customers with superior custom screw machined parts . Therefore , we make certain that we possess only the most advanced CNC screw machining equipment . Our shop is outfitted with CNC hybrid machines possessing auto bar feeders capable of holding ultra tight tolerances of just ( + /- ) 0.0001 of an inch .
 2017 - 5 - 18   ·   These high pressure turbine blades were manufactured for use in gas turbine assemblies . Hi - Tek Manufacturing is a world class supplier of hot gas path components for the gas turbine industry . Composed of a high temperature super alloy , the high pressure turbine blades are one of the primary components in the hot gas path segment of a turbine and one of Hi - Tek 's highest volume products .


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Very few people that get Bellwood homeowners insurance actually end up finding the best rates available. They will typically go with what their current insurance provider has for them, usually bundling that in order to get a discount. However, you can find several different Nebraska companies that will charge far less than what your existing insurance policy actually offers. In fact, they may even give you more coverage for less money, but you have to obtain home insurance quotes on the web that can lead you to these exceptional deals.
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Getting home owner's insurance policy is certainly a sensible thought. Catastrophes usually come about unexpectedly and can end result in tremendous costs, and probably the loss of your house. Having house owner's insurance policies will assist you cover the cost of almost everything from a burst pipe, to hearth damage. house owner's insurance coverage will help you to resolve or rebuild your house swiftly.
A good deal of renters never get renters' insurance. Renter's insurance policy handles your individual possessions. You require to get your personal coverage to protect your things in the occasion of a fireplace, flood, or even theft.
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homeowner's insurance coverage coverage is a "certain substitute worth" 1. This guards the expense you have manufactured in your home, since if your house is wrecked in a normal catastrophe, it will be reconstructed, irrespective of the value. Constructing a house boosts in price every single yr. This type of plan gives you a monetary cushion and absorbs the increasing home-creating fees, so you do not have to.

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Very few people that get Bellwood homeowners insurance actually end up finding the best rates available . They will typically go with what their current insurance provider has for them , usually bundling that in order to get a discount . However , you can find several different Nebraska companies that will charge far less than what your existing insurance policy actually offers . In fact , they may even give you more coverage for less money , but you have to obtain home insurance quotes on the web that can lead you to these exceptional deals .
 The speed at which the policy will go into effect is usually quite fast . If you are coming up on your next payment with your current insurance provider , it will likely start on the same day so that you do not lose any coverage . Also remember that discounts can also be achieved by paying your premiums annually instead of making monthly payments . These are just a few other things to consider if you are looking for a way to save money on your Bellwood , Nebraska homeowner insurance policy .
 Getting home owner 's insurance policy is certainly a sensible thought . Catastrophes usually come about unexpectedly and can end result in tremendous costs , and probably the loss of your house . Having house owner 's insurance policies will assist you cover the cost of almost everything from a burst pipe , to hearth damage . house owner 's insurance coverage will help you to resolve or rebuild your house swiftly .
 A good deal of renters never get renters ' insurance . Renter 's insurance policy handles your individual possessions . You require to get your personal coverage to protect your things in the occasion of a fireplace , flood , or even theft .
 homeowner 's insurance policy costs simply because you will find now much more house to insure . Lessen the enhance by being smart with your developing options . If you can arrange for metal - framed development , you could be in a position to pay less by selecting this less - flammable substance . Consider the new roof 's fire rating as nicely .
 Elevating a deductible is a excellent way to reduce house insurance coverage rates . You have to do analysis , since tiny statements can price you cash and you have to pay out them , this kind of as leaky pipe hurt and broken home .
 homeowner 's insurance coverage coverage is a " certain substitute worth " 1 . This guards the expense you have manufactured in your home , since if your house is wrecked in a normal catastrophe , it will be reconstructed , irrespective of the value . Constructing a house boosts in price every single yr . This type of plan gives you a monetary cushion and absorbs the increasing home - creating fees , so you do not have to .


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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - June 16, 2010) - Lucara Diamond Corp. (TSX VENTURE:LUC)("Lucara" or the "Company") is pleased to report that a 53.5 carat, white Type IIA diamond has been recovered in the first week of production at the Company's Mothae mine in Lesotho.
Kimberlite processing, which totals just 2,000 tonnes, commenced on Monday of this week. Production is currently being ramped-up to the design capacity of 1,000tpd.
Mr. William Lamb, President and CEO, commented, "Recovery of this 53.5 carat stone on initial start up at the Mothae mine is a huge win for Lucara and Mothae Diamonds. Results of initial sampling work at Mothae indicated that large diamonds are present but were being broken by the limited material size which the original bulk sample plant could process. As a single stone, this diamond is more than twice the size of any previous diamond recovered from Mothae. Management views this as early confirmation of our technical assessment of Mothae's potential and the operational approach we have taken to advance this exciting project."
The contents of this release have been reviewed and verified by Dr. Larry Ott a professional geologist and Lucara's V.P. Exploration, and by Mr. Anthony George, P. Eng, a mining engineer and Lucara's V.P. Development, both of whom are Qualified Persons pursuant to NI 43-101.
Lucara is an African focused diamond production company with currently two mines under development: the newly commissioned Mothae mine in Lesotho and the AK6 project in Botswana. Both projects are known for their large, high-quality, high-value diamonds including Type IIA stones produced from the Mothae mine.

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VANCOUVER , BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - June 16 , 2010 ) - Lucara Diamond Corp. ( TSX VENTURE : LUC)("Lucara " or the " Company " ) is pleased to report that a 53.5 carat , white Type IIA diamond has been recovered in the first week of production at the Company 's Mothae mine in Lesotho .
 Kimberlite processing , which totals just 2,000 tonnes , commenced on Monday of this week . Production is currently being ramped - up to the design capacity of 1,000tpd .
 Mr. William Lamb , President and CEO , commented , " Recovery of this 53.5 carat stone on initial start up at the Mothae mine is a huge win for Lucara and Mothae Diamonds . Results of initial sampling work at Mothae indicated that large diamonds are present but were being broken by the limited material size which the original bulk sample plant could process . As a single stone , this diamond is more than twice the size of any previous diamond recovered from Mothae . Management views this as early confirmation of our technical assessment of Mothae 's potential and the operational approach we have taken to advance this exciting project . "
 The contents of this release have been reviewed and verified by Dr. Larry Ott a professional geologist and Lucara 's V.P. Exploration , and by Mr. Anthony George , P. Eng , a mining engineer and Lucara 's V.P. Development , both of whom are Qualified Persons pursuant to NI 43 - 101 .
 Lucara is an African focused diamond production company with currently two mines under development : the newly commissioned Mothae mine in Lesotho and the AK6 project in Botswana . Both projects are known for their large , high - quality , high - value diamonds including Type IIA stones produced from the Mothae mine .


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Focusing only on shareholders’ financial return is not consistent with the concept of sustainable corporate governance. In contrast to financial performance, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a non-financial performance index. Financial reports consist of both financial and non-financial disclosures. These disclosures help investors make decisions. This paper characterizes the interaction between the sentiment analysis of financial reports and CSR scores. The classification accuracy through SVM exceeds 86%. The empirical study shows that the financial report sentiment based on the PESTEL model, Porter’s Five Forces model, and Value Chain (Primary and Support Activities) significantly correlates to the CSR score.
Lawlor (2001) warned that even if an organization is “as pure as the driven snow in its own operations, it should expect public scrutiny of the practices of suppliers and associates”. Bad news about companies such as Nike, GAP, Reebok, and Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) attracted negative media attention in the late 1990s. In 2012, Apple became a high-profile target for non-government organizations concerned about working conditions in multinational supply chains. These concerns were related to the China-based Foxconn organization, where the vast majority of its 1.2 million employees were involved in assembling Apple products (according to Reuter’s reports). At the request of 250,000 petitioners, Apple was persuaded to ask the Fair Labor Association to investigate the working conditions at the Foxconn factory in China. Walmart was heavily criticized for its workplace practices in the US. In 2012, the National Employment Law Project (NELP) published the “Chain of Greed” report (Cho et al., 2012) about Walmart’s worker exploitation in the US. Some responsibility for the conditions of the poorly paid garment makers in Bangladesh has also been placed on the western retailers who sold the garments made by these oppressed workers after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building caused international outrage.
Since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), and amid a lingering recession that has intensified pressure from shareholders, companies are devising new corporate social responsibility (CSR) models that are more aligned with their core business goals and services. For example, blue-chip companies, such as Visa and Unilever, are creating new markets in the developing world by closely aligning social causes with their overarching corporate strategies. CSR has a strong role to play in the provision of information for risk management purposes. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) was formed in 2000. Based in New York and London, the CDP focuses on the implications of climate change for shareholder value and commercial operations. CDP believes that carbon emissions and climate change represent significant business risks and, therefore, an organization’s policies and performance in relation to climate change should be factored into investment decisions. The decision to report information (whether it be CSR or financial information) is the concept of “accountability”. It is defined as the duty to provide a report, or an account, of the actions and decisions made about those areas of activity for which an organization is deemed to be responsible. The Commission of European Communities (CEC) states that CSR is “a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. Being socially responsible means not only fulfilling legal expectations, but also going beyond compliance and investing more into human capital, the environment, and the relations with stakeholders” (CEC 2001) , p. 6. The above definition is also consistent with the definition of CSR provided by the World Business Council on Sustainable Development: “The commitment of business to contribute to sustainable economic development, working with employees, their families, the local community, and society at large to improve their quality of life” (Holme & Watts, 2000), p. 10.
The 3 main pillars of sustainability include environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Social and environmental performance can affect an organization’s future reputation, brands, and its ability to attract talented staff and maintain consumer and public support (CPA Australia, 2015a). Based on the Stakeholder Theory, corporate governance includes both financial performance and CSR. CSR refers to a wide range of activities that an organization undertakes, from charity donations to the management of carbon emissions. Based on the Signaling Theory, a financial report (FR) is the fundamental tool investors use to make decisions. It contains financial ratios as well as textual notes. Through this textual information, investors can learn about the firm’s social responsibility. Sentiment analysis is a relatively mature technique. However, China’s capital market is growing and Chinese is a complex language. We developed a sustainable strategy for corporate governance based on the sentiment analysis of Chinese financial reports with CSR. We solved 3 main problems: (1) Identifying the subjective object description in financial reports, (2) building an object library based on strategic models, and (3) characterizing the interaction between the CSR score and financial report sentiment categories.
Sustainability is widely recognized as one of the most important challenges facing the world today (Wan, Arief, & Rajagopalan, 2014). For most of the world’s largest companies, reporting on non-financial information appears to be a continuing trend. The communication of the social and environmental dimensions of a company plays a key role in the sustainable development of an organization, and therefore should be investigated in depth (Enrique & Michaela, 2015).
Multinational corporations play a prominent role in shaping the environmental trajectory of the planet. The integration of environmental costs and benefits into corporate decision-making has an enormous, but as yet unfulfilled, potential to promote sustainable development. Now is the time to take advantage of an explosion of sustainability commitments from business leaders and expanding pressure for sustainable practices from shareholders, financial institutions, and consumers (Kareiva, McNally, & McCormick Steve et al., 2015). CSR initiatives are crucial for achieving part of an inclusive growth vision. Organizations that are proactive rather than reactive may help achieve a sustainable inclusive growth via various CSR initiatives (Radhakrishnan, Chitrao & Nagendra, 2014). Research on CSR disclosure points to an increasing lack of completeness and decreasing amount of credibility in the information reported, as well as concerns about overall reporting practices. The evidence supports increasing skepticism about the use of CSR reporting practices as tools used to enhance perceived accountability (Giovanna, Silvia, & Federica, 2015). Standalone CSR reporting by retail companies appears to positively influence perceptions of a company’s reputation and may lead to increased appeal for socially responsible investors (Dennis & Na, 2014). Disclose CSR could increase transparency and non-financial accountability in capital markets. The empirical study reveals that family ownership reduces the level of CSR disclosure (Safaee M & M S Gerayli, 2017). Combining stakeholder theory with CSR research is a historic accomplishment (Zhang, Liang, & Yin, 2012). Chinese empirical data showed that CSR behavior is one of the key factors influencing consumers’ purchasing decisions (Ma, 2011). Data from listed Chinese companies in Shanghai demonstrated that the previous years’ CSR positively affects the current year’s corporate financial performance (CFP), and the current year’s CFP positively affects the CSR (Zhang, Jin, & Li, 2013). An empirical analysis showed that, assuming CSR is exogenous, the current CSR plays a significant positive role in promoting the current CFP, and vice versa (Yin, Liu, & Chen, 2014).
There is a vast amount of financial information on companies’ financial performance available to investors in electronic form (Salahuddin & Gow, 2016; Loughran & McDonald, 2011; Robert, Schumaker, & Hsinchun, 2009; Kloptchenko et al., 2004). While the automatic analysis of financial figures is common, it has been difficult to automatically extract information from the textual part of financial reports. The textual part contains more information than numerical part in an annual report (Chen et al., 2012; Hobson, Mayew, & Venkatachalam, 2012; Chan & Franklin, 2011; Feng, 2010; Feng, 2006; Kloptchenko et al., 2004). In recent decades, and with the advent of the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), financial reports have experienced a great change in terms of the unified reporting process. Nevertheless, the unstructured part of financial reports, the footnotes, remains a barrier to accurate automatic and real-time financial analysis (Heidari & Felden, 2015). Currently, the application of data mining to auditing is at an early stage of development and researchers typically take a scatter-shot approach to it, investigating patterns in financial statement disclosures, text in annual reports and MD&As, and journal entries without the appropriate guidance, such as the lessons drawn from investigations on known fraud patterns (Gray & Debreceny, 2014). The sentiment (tone, opinion) has been assessed using several categorization schemes in order to explore the various aspects of language used in the annual reports of US companies. The results indicated that the sentiment information is an important forecasting determinant of financial performance and, thus, can be used to support the decision-making process of corporate stakeholders (Hajek, Olej, & Myskova, 2014). (Wang et al. 2016) investigated the correlation between mutual funds’ scale and return in China by text mining a large volume of online financial reports. They further employed K-means clustering for fund categorization, which enables the reliable examination of correlations between the fund’s scale and return. The findings highlighted the uniqueness of emerging markets while providing interesting guidelines for exploiting big data analytics for financial studies.
Corporate social responsibility is crucial for sustainable corporate governance. Researchers have realized the potential value of the textual analysis of financial reports for detecting fraud, managing risk, and forecasting future performance. However, few researchers have performed empirical studies on the sentiment analysis of financial reports based on strategic factors and CSR. This paper will illustrate how to perform an effective sentiment analysis of financial reports.
The research framework is shown in Fig. 1 and includes 4 steps: (1) data collection and preprocessing, (2) subjective sentence identification, emotional trend classification, and object description extraction, (3) the object library of the financial reports, and (4) empirical analysis.
To develop the sample for the transferrable object library, we used firm-year observations from different industries, including real estate, automobile, medicine, electric, communications, and energy. The final sample contained 50 financial reports from 2008 to 2013. The data came from www.cninfo.com.cn, which is the designated disclosure website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. To distinguish our work from existing quantitative (financial ratios) research and mine the potential information contained in the textual content of the financial reports, we did not extract common words like “we” or “company” or industry-specific words and pure financial terminology such as “automobile”, “real estate”, or “asset-liability ratio”. The classification precision based on the sentence corpus was higher than that of the paragraph or document (Zheng, 2014); we extracted 32,767 sentences from the textual part of the financial reports based on the full-stop punctuation.
Using the approach found in (Bao and Datta’s 2014) work, we recruited 10 graduate students to label the sample sentences. Each student labels around 4000 sentences, among which 800 sentences are repetitive. Before labeling, they are briefed on the definition and trained on a number of real labeled examples. We keep communication and discussion during the whole process. The consistency of repetitive sentences reaches 80%. We only retain the subjective sentences whose labels are agreed upon by other annotators. The final sample set contained 2001 subjective sentences with a general emotional tendency and 4181 groups of related object descriptions. The expression of the subjective emotion was very complicated, and each sentence may not only have described the situation and emotional expression of a single aspect of the company. Although the variety of sentences means that some sentences will tend to approve some aspects of the company while others tend to criticize aspects of the company, a sentence’s general emotional tendency can be identified. The emotion tendency of the internal parts of 1 sentence can be different from the whole emotional tendency of the sentence. Therefore, we labeled the whole emotional tendency, related object description of each sentence, and emotional tendency of each object description (shown in Table 1).
Let us use the first sentence to illustrate this process of identification. Even though there is only one sentence (divided by full stop punctuation), the subjective expression involves 4 groups of the object description, which should be listed separately. Among them, 2 groups of emotional expression are negative descriptions about the company’s external environment, but the whole emotional tendency of this sentence is positive. Therefore, the general emotion of this sentence should be labeled as positive, while its constituent parts are labeled as having different emotional tendencies. We obtained a set of 1724 positive sentences and 277 negative sentences. Among the object description groups, there were 3482 expressing positive emotions and 699 expressing negative emotions. For both the sentence level and object description level, around 85% of this sample expressed positive emotions and only 15% expressed negative emotions. After removing the repeated items, there were 2637 objects and 1728 descriptions. The difference in these results may be explained by the fact that the describing objects in financial reports can differ in thousands of ways, while the emotional tendency is mainly expressed as either “good” or “bad”.
Text consists of characters and punctuation, constituting words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, sections, chapters, and documents. Before the computer could automatically deal with textual content, we needed to find an idealized method of formal representation that reflected the potential content of the text and then help it to identify different texts. The Support Vector Machine (SVM), a supervised learning method, is a prominent method for text classification (Pang et al., 2002; Mullen & Collier, 2004; Whitelaw et al., 2005; Ni et al., 2007). The basic idea of the SVM is to use a training set to find the hyperplane in vector space and then separate the data points into as many different categories as possible. Through a trained SVM model, the emotional tendency of the testing data could be automatically predicted.
We labeled the subjective sentences of financial reports from different industries. After removing the data with missing values, we obtained a matrix of 1966*1728 (sentence*description). Based on the proportion of 3:1, we divided the data into a training set and a testing set.
Table 2 shows the SVM classification result. The precision ratio was 97.36% and recall ratio was 88.04% when identifying a positive emotional tendency. The precision ratio was 35.29% and recall ratio was 73.17% when identifying a negative emotional tendency. The total precision ratio reached 86.83% and the F-measure value was 51.81%. The positive precision was much higher than that for the negative identification, which can be explained by the aforementioned statistical results. When preparing financial reports, managers usually have a positive attitude or mood (instead of a negative or adverse emotional tendency) towards the company’s financial position, operation results, and cash flow. Thus, most sentences in the sample set expressed positive emotion and few were negative. This tendency was also reflected in the calculation of “the precision ratio of identifying the negative emotional tendency”. The denominator contained a large number of misjudged samples that the machine recognized as − 1 while the human label was + 1, which led to the lower precision ratio for negative expressions.
SWOT strategic analysis is a common method for evaluating corporate performance, which contains an analysis of the internal environment and external environment. In the above section, we divided the financial reports into sentences based on full stop punctuation, then identified the emotional tendency of the sentences, and finally extracted the related object description. These objects were words or phrases that we wanted to classify. Our process was as follows.
First, we labeled these objects as internal or external.
If the text described the company’s external information, it belonged to the external strategic analysis. The strategic analysis of the external environment is usually subdivided into the macro environment analysis and industry environment analysis. The former analyzes the whole environment, which can influence all kinds of industries, so we used the PESTEL model for these data. The latter aims at the strategic factors in a specific industry outside of a company that affect the company being analyzed as well as all the other companies engaged in similar economic and operational activities in the same industry; for these data, we adopted Porter’s Five Forces model.
If the sentence described the company’s internal situation, it belonged to the internal strategic analysis. Companies cannot control external environment factors. The strategic analysis of the internal environment relates to controllable factors, which can be improved by management and other control measures. The Value Chain includes the Primary and Support Activities and is used for corporate internal analysis.
There were 11 (6 + 5) external object categories, shown in Table 3. After removing the repeated items, the statistical results indicated that, among the factors in the corporate external environment, companies were concerned about the economic factor, industry rivalry, and power of the buyer the most, which are issues related to company earnings.
Table 4 shows that the internal objects are more related to a firm’s infrastructure, marketing and sales, and operations and technology development than human resource management and services. The factors of least importance are inbound logistics, outbound logistics, and procurement.
There were 345 sentences describing the external environment and 859 related groups of the object descriptions. There were 1656 sentences describing the internal environment and 3322 related groups of object descriptions, which were 4.8 times and 3.9 times as great, respectively, as the results from the external analysis. Among the related descriptions of the external environment, 41.68% described positive emotions and 58.32% described negative emotions. In contrast, 94.04% described positive emotions regarding the internal environment and 5.96% described negative emotions regarding the internal environment. These results demonstrated that the main sentiment expressed in these financial reports was about internal information disclosure, mainly good news about corporate performance. Compared with the internal disclosure, the description of the external environment revealed much more emotion that is negative.
The CSR score data was taken from www.hexun.com. Control variables included the ROE, BM ratio, and company size, which were obtained from the China Stock Market & Accounting Research (CSMAR) database. The empirical data set consisted of 16 companies (000002 Vanke, 600050 China Unicom, 600028 SINOPEC, 601857 CNPC, 600104 SAIC Motor, 000800 FAW CAR, 000927 TJ FAW, 000572 HaiMa Motor, 601607 Shanghai Pharma, 000538 Yunnan Baiyao, 000423 DEEJ, 600085 TongRenTang, 000651 GREE, 600690 Haier, 600839 Sichuan Changhong, and 000016 KONKA A) in various industries over a period of 2 years, 2012 and 2013. Based on the object library we built and emotional tendencies classified in the above sections, we calculated the financial reports’ sentiment value of each category using Models 1–6.
Table 5 presents the descriptive statistics for our sample. The units of the CSR and Size are obviously different from the other variables, so we used the log value of these 2 variables for the regression.
Table 6 shows the experiment results, among which Model 5 demonstrates a statistical significance between the CSR score and financial report sentiment based on the categories of the PESTEL, and Porter’s Five Forces, Primary Activities and Support Activities. It outperformed the other models. The signs of the 4 variables’ coefficients were consistent with the aforementioned statistical results. When preparing a financial report, managers express positive emotions in accordance with Porter’s Five Forces and Support Activities, which show the company’s opportunities and strengths. Managers may also complain about the threat from the macro environment and weakness of the Primary Activities.
Based on Model 5, we calculated the predicted values for the CSR scores. The comparison between predicted values and true values of the CSR scores is plotted as Fig. 2, which shows a consistent trend.
Milton Friedman, the noted economist, argued that the primary responsibility of managers is to maximize shareholder wealth. However, any director or senior manager who believes that acting for the exclusive benefit of its shareholders will lead to long-term success and satisfactory corporate governance is mistaken. It is often forgotten that Friedman also mentioned that this pursuit of shareholder wealth should be “within the rules”.
In the real world, ignoring stakeholders’ interests will result in poor performance and could even result in corporate bankruptcy. Based on the Stakeholder Theory, an organization’s success depends on the successful management of all the relationships that the organization has with its stakeholders. These stakeholders include not just shareholders (for corporate entities), but also other parties who could be affected by the operations of an entity, such as its employees, competitors, customers, suppliers, lenders, government, community, and environment. Paying attention to a broad range of stakeholders is important from a moral or ethical perspective and the survival of a firm depends on the management of a range of relationships.
This research contributes to stakeholders’ comprehensive decision-making ability in regards to corporate accountability. The attitude of a manager towards CSR interacts with the emotional tendency expressed in the financial report. Stakeholders can learn more about a company’s sustainable accountability through the sentiment analysis of its financial report. Companies can also do better by paying attention to CSR and by pursuing sustainable corporate governance.
We developed an object library for financial reports that consisted of 20 categories based on strategic analysis. Regression models of the CSR score and financial report sentiment of different categories demonstrate that when financial report sentiment is classified into 4 categories based on the PESTEL model, Porter’s Five Forces model, the Primary Activities and Support Activities, it adds statistically significant explanatory power to the CSR score. The result is transferrable to different industries. In the future, we can apply the method for creating an object library of financial reports to other financial disclosures.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71371144, 71601119, 71771177).
Yuan Song collected data and wrote the main paper. Hongwei Wang gave the main idea and improvement suggestions. Maoran Zhu contributed to the experiment analysis. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Yuan Song is a PhD candidate at School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200,092, China. Her research interests include corporate governance, auditing and textual analysis.
Hongwei Wang is currently a professor of Information Systems in the School of Economics and Management at Tongji University, China. His research interests include sentiment analysis, social media, and business intelligence.
Maoran Zhu is an associate professor of Management Science in the School of Economics and Management at Tongji University, China. His research interests include E-commerce and business intelligence.
Holme R, Watts P (2000), Corporate Social Responsibility: Making good business sense, World Business Council on Sustainable Development. http://www.ceads.org.ar/downloads/Making%20good%20business%20sense.pdf. Accessed Feb 2018.

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Focusing only on shareholders ’ financial return is not consistent with the concept of sustainable corporate governance . In contrast to financial performance , corporate social responsibility ( CSR ) is a non - financial performance index . Financial reports consist of both financial and non - financial disclosures . These disclosures help investors make decisions . This paper characterizes the interaction between the sentiment analysis of financial reports and CSR scores . The classification accuracy through SVM exceeds 86 % . The empirical study shows that the financial report sentiment based on the PESTEL model , Porter ’s Five Forces model , and Value Chain ( Primary and Support Activities ) significantly correlates to the CSR score .
 Lawlor ( 2001 ) warned that even if an organization is “ as pure as the driven snow in its own operations , it should expect public scrutiny of the practices of suppliers and associates ” . Bad news about companies such as Nike , GAP , Reebok , and Hennes & Mauritz ( H&M ) attracted negative media attention in the late 1990s . In 2012 , Apple became a high - profile target for non - government organizations concerned about working conditions in multinational supply chains . These concerns were related to the China - based Foxconn organization , where the vast majority of its 1.2 million employees were involved in assembling Apple products ( according to Reuter ’s reports ) . At the request of 250,000 petitioners , Apple was persuaded to ask the Fair Labor Association to investigate the working conditions at the Foxconn factory in China . Walmart was heavily criticized for its workplace practices in the US . In 2012 , the National Employment Law Project ( NELP ) published the “ Chain of Greed ” report ( Cho et al . , 2012 ) about Walmart ’s worker exploitation in the US . Some responsibility for the conditions of the poorly paid garment makers in Bangladesh has also been placed on the western retailers who sold the garments made by these oppressed workers after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building caused international outrage .
 Since the Global Financial Crisis ( GFC ) , and amid a lingering recession that has intensified pressure from shareholders , companies are devising new corporate social responsibility ( CSR ) models that are more aligned with their core business goals and services . For example , blue - chip companies , such as Visa and Unilever , are creating new markets in the developing world by closely aligning social causes with their overarching corporate strategies . CSR has a strong role to play in the provision of information for risk management purposes . The Carbon Disclosure Project ( CDP ) was formed in 2000 . Based in New York and London , the CDP focuses on the implications of climate change for shareholder value and commercial operations . CDP believes that carbon emissions and climate change represent significant business risks and , therefore , an organization ’s policies and performance in relation to climate change should be factored into investment decisions . The decision to report information ( whether it be CSR or financial information ) is the concept of “ accountability ” . It is defined as the duty to provide a report , or an account , of the actions and decisions made about those areas of activity for which an organization is deemed to be responsible . The Commission of European Communities ( CEC ) states that CSR is “ a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis . Being socially responsible means not only fulfilling legal expectations , but also going beyond compliance and investing more into human capital , the environment , and the relations with stakeholders ” ( CEC 2001 ) , p. 6 . The above definition is also consistent with the definition of CSR provided by the World Business Council on Sustainable Development : “ The commitment of business to contribute to sustainable economic development , working with employees , their families , the local community , and society at large to improve their quality of life ” ( Holme & Watts , 2000 ) , p. 10 .
 The 3 main pillars of sustainability include environmental , social , and economic sustainability . Social and environmental performance can affect an organization ’s future reputation , brands , and its ability to attract talented staff and maintain consumer and public support ( CPA Australia , 2015a ) . Based on the Stakeholder Theory , corporate governance includes both financial performance and CSR . CSR refers to a wide range of activities that an organization undertakes , from charity donations to the management of carbon emissions . Based on the Signaling Theory , a financial report ( FR ) is the fundamental tool investors use to make decisions . It contains financial ratios as well as textual notes . Through this textual information , investors can learn about the firm ’s social responsibility . Sentiment analysis is a relatively mature technique . However , China ’s capital market is growing and Chinese is a complex language . We developed a sustainable strategy for corporate governance based on the sentiment analysis of Chinese financial reports with CSR . We solved 3 main problems : ( 1 ) Identifying the subjective object description in financial reports , ( 2 ) building an object library based on strategic models , and ( 3 ) characterizing the interaction between the CSR score and financial report sentiment categories .
 Sustainability is widely recognized as one of the most important challenges facing the world today ( Wan , Arief , & Rajagopalan , 2014 ) . For most of the world ’s largest companies , reporting on non - financial information appears to be a continuing trend . The communication of the social and environmental dimensions of a company plays a key role in the sustainable development of an organization , and therefore should be investigated in depth ( Enrique & Michaela , 2015 ) .
 Multinational corporations play a prominent role in shaping the environmental trajectory of the planet . The integration of environmental costs and benefits into corporate decision - making has an enormous , but as yet unfulfilled , potential to promote sustainable development . Now is the time to take advantage of an explosion of sustainability commitments from business leaders and expanding pressure for sustainable practices from shareholders , financial institutions , and consumers ( Kareiva , McNally , & McCormick Steve et al . , 2015 ) . CSR initiatives are crucial for achieving part of an inclusive growth vision . Organizations that are proactive rather than reactive may help achieve a sustainable inclusive growth via various CSR initiatives ( Radhakrishnan , Chitrao & Nagendra , 2014 ) . Research on CSR disclosure points to an increasing lack of completeness and decreasing amount of credibility in the information reported , as well as concerns about overall reporting practices . The evidence supports increasing skepticism about the use of CSR reporting practices as tools used to enhance perceived accountability ( Giovanna , Silvia , & Federica , 2015 ) . Standalone CSR reporting by retail companies appears to positively influence perceptions of a company ’s reputation and may lead to increased appeal for socially responsible investors ( Dennis & Na , 2014 ) . Disclose CSR could increase transparency and non - financial accountability in capital markets . The empirical study reveals that family ownership reduces the level of CSR disclosure ( Safaee M & M S Gerayli , 2017 ) . Combining stakeholder theory with CSR research is a historic accomplishment ( Zhang , Liang , & Yin , 2012 ) . Chinese empirical data showed that CSR behavior is one of the key factors influencing consumers ’ purchasing decisions ( Ma , 2011 ) . Data from listed Chinese companies in Shanghai demonstrated that the previous years ’ CSR positively affects the current year ’s corporate financial performance ( CFP ) , and the current year ’s CFP positively affects the CSR ( Zhang , Jin , & Li , 2013 ) . An empirical analysis showed that , assuming CSR is exogenous , the current CSR plays a significant positive role in promoting the current CFP , and vice versa ( Yin , Liu , & Chen , 2014 ) .
 There is a vast amount of financial information on companies ’ financial performance available to investors in electronic form ( Salahuddin & Gow , 2016 ; Loughran & McDonald , 2011 ; Robert , Schumaker , & Hsinchun , 2009 ; Kloptchenko et al . , 2004 ) . While the automatic analysis of financial figures is common , it has been difficult to automatically extract information from the textual part of financial reports . The textual part contains more information than numerical part in an annual report ( Chen et al . , 2012 ; Hobson , Mayew , & Venkatachalam , 2012 ; Chan & Franklin , 2011 ; Feng , 2010 ; Feng , 2006 ; Kloptchenko et al . , 2004 ) . In recent decades , and with the advent of the eXtensible Business Reporting Language ( XBRL ) , financial reports have experienced a great change in terms of the unified reporting process . Nevertheless , the unstructured part of financial reports , the footnotes , remains a barrier to accurate automatic and real - time financial analysis ( Heidari & Felden , 2015 ) . Currently , the application of data mining to auditing is at an early stage of development and researchers typically take a scatter - shot approach to it , investigating patterns in financial statement disclosures , text in annual reports and MD&As , and journal entries without the appropriate guidance , such as the lessons drawn from investigations on known fraud patterns ( Gray & Debreceny , 2014 ) . The sentiment ( tone , opinion ) has been assessed using several categorization schemes in order to explore the various aspects of language used in the annual reports of US companies . The results indicated that the sentiment information is an important forecasting determinant of financial performance and , thus , can be used to support the decision - making process of corporate stakeholders ( Hajek , Olej , & Myskova , 2014 ) . ( Wang et al . 2016 ) investigated the correlation between mutual funds ’ scale and return in China by text mining a large volume of online financial reports . They further employed K - means clustering for fund categorization , which enables the reliable examination of correlations between the fund ’s scale and return . The findings highlighted the uniqueness of emerging markets while providing interesting guidelines for exploiting big data analytics for financial studies .
 Corporate social responsibility is crucial for sustainable corporate governance . Researchers have realized the potential value of the textual analysis of financial reports for detecting fraud , managing risk , and forecasting future performance . However , few researchers have performed empirical studies on the sentiment analysis of financial reports based on strategic factors and CSR . This paper will illustrate how to perform an effective sentiment analysis of financial reports .
 The research framework is shown in Fig . 1 and includes 4 steps : ( 1 ) data collection and preprocessing , ( 2 ) subjective sentence identification , emotional trend classification , and object description extraction , ( 3 ) the object library of the financial reports , and ( 4 ) empirical analysis .
 To develop the sample for the transferrable object library , we used firm - year observations from different industries , including real estate , automobile , medicine , electric , communications , and energy . The final sample contained 50 financial reports from 2008 to 2013 . The data came from www.cninfo.com.cn , which is the designated disclosure website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission . To distinguish our work from existing quantitative ( financial ratios ) research and mine the potential information contained in the textual content of the financial reports , we did not extract common words like “ we ” or “ company ” or industry - specific words and pure financial terminology such as “ automobile ” , “ real estate ” , or “ asset - liability ratio ” . The classification precision based on the sentence corpus was higher than that of the paragraph or document ( Zheng , 2014 ) ; we extracted 32,767 sentences from the textual part of the financial reports based on the full - stop punctuation .
 Using the approach found in ( Bao and Datta ’s 2014 ) work , we recruited 10 graduate students to label the sample sentences . Each student labels around 4000 sentences , among which 800 sentences are repetitive . Before labeling , they are briefed on the definition and trained on a number of real labeled examples . We keep communication and discussion during the whole process . The consistency of repetitive sentences reaches 80 % . We only retain the subjective sentences whose labels are agreed upon by other annotators . The final sample set contained 2001 subjective sentences with a general emotional tendency and 4181 groups of related object descriptions . The expression of the subjective emotion was very complicated , and each sentence may not only have described the situation and emotional expression of a single aspect of the company . Although the variety of sentences means that some sentences will tend to approve some aspects of the company while others tend to criticize aspects of the company , a sentence ’s general emotional tendency can be identified . The emotion tendency of the internal parts of 1 sentence can be different from the whole emotional tendency of the sentence . Therefore , we labeled the whole emotional tendency , related object description of each sentence , and emotional tendency of each object description ( shown in Table 1 ) .
 Let us use the first sentence to illustrate this process of identification . Even though there is only one sentence ( divided by full stop punctuation ) , the subjective expression involves 4 groups of the object description , which should be listed separately . Among them , 2 groups of emotional expression are negative descriptions about the company ’s external environment , but the whole emotional tendency of this sentence is positive . Therefore , the general emotion of this sentence should be labeled as positive , while its constituent parts are labeled as having different emotional tendencies . We obtained a set of 1724 positive sentences and 277 negative sentences . Among the object description groups , there were 3482 expressing positive emotions and 699 expressing negative emotions . For both the sentence level and object description level , around 85 % of this sample expressed positive emotions and only 15 % expressed negative emotions . After removing the repeated items , there were 2637 objects and 1728 descriptions . The difference in these results may be explained by the fact that the describing objects in financial reports can differ in thousands of ways , while the emotional tendency is mainly expressed as either “ good ” or “ bad ” .
 Text consists of characters and punctuation , constituting words , phrases , sentences , paragraphs , sections , chapters , and documents . Before the computer could automatically deal with textual content , we needed to find an idealized method of formal representation that reflected the potential content of the text and then help it to identify different texts . The Support Vector Machine ( SVM ) , a supervised learning method , is a prominent method for text classification ( Pang et al . , 2002 ; Mullen & Collier , 2004 ; Whitelaw et al . , 2005 ; Ni et al . , 2007 ) . The basic idea of the SVM is to use a training set to find the hyperplane in vector space and then separate the data points into as many different categories as possible . Through a trained SVM model , the emotional tendency of the testing data could be automatically predicted .
 We labeled the subjective sentences of financial reports from different industries . After removing the data with missing values , we obtained a matrix of 1966 * 1728 ( sentence*description ) . Based on the proportion of 3:1 , we divided the data into a training set and a testing set .
 Table 2 shows the SVM classification result . The precision ratio was 97.36 % and recall ratio was 88.04 % when identifying a positive emotional tendency . The precision ratio was 35.29 % and recall ratio was 73.17 % when identifying a negative emotional tendency . The total precision ratio reached 86.83 % and the F - measure value was 51.81 % . The positive precision was much higher than that for the negative identification , which can be explained by the aforementioned statistical results . When preparing financial reports , managers usually have a positive attitude or mood ( instead of a negative or adverse emotional tendency ) towards the company ’s financial position , operation results , and cash flow . Thus , most sentences in the sample set expressed positive emotion and few were negative . This tendency was also reflected in the calculation of “ the precision ratio of identifying the negative emotional tendency ” . The denominator contained a large number of misjudged samples that the machine recognized as −   1 while the human label was +   1 , which led to the lower precision ratio for negative expressions .
 SWOT strategic analysis is a common method for evaluating corporate performance , which contains an analysis of the internal environment and external environment . In the above section , we divided the financial reports into sentences based on full stop punctuation , then identified the emotional tendency of the sentences , and finally extracted the related object description . These objects were words or phrases that we wanted to classify . Our process was as follows .
 First , we labeled these objects as internal or external .
 If the text described the company ’s external information , it belonged to the external strategic analysis . The strategic analysis of the external environment is usually subdivided into the macro environment analysis and industry environment analysis . The former analyzes the whole environment , which can influence all kinds of industries , so we used the PESTEL model for these data . The latter aims at the strategic factors in a specific industry outside of a company that affect the company being analyzed as well as all the other companies engaged in similar economic and operational activities in the same industry ; for these data , we adopted Porter ’s Five Forces model .
 If the sentence described the company ’s internal situation , it belonged to the internal strategic analysis . Companies can not control external environment factors . The strategic analysis of the internal environment relates to controllable factors , which can be improved by management and other control measures . The Value Chain includes the Primary and Support Activities and is used for corporate internal analysis .
 There were 11 ( 6   +   5 ) external object categories , shown in Table 3 . After removing the repeated items , the statistical results indicated that , among the factors in the corporate external environment , companies were concerned about the economic factor , industry rivalry , and power of the buyer the most , which are issues related to company earnings .
 Table 4 shows that the internal objects are more related to a firm ’s infrastructure , marketing and sales , and operations and technology development than human resource management and services . The factors of least importance are inbound logistics , outbound logistics , and procurement .
 There were 345 sentences describing the external environment and 859 related groups of the object descriptions . There were 1656 sentences describing the internal environment and 3322 related groups of object descriptions , which were 4.8 times and 3.9 times as great , respectively , as the results from the external analysis . Among the related descriptions of the external environment , 41.68 % described positive emotions and 58.32 % described negative emotions . In contrast , 94.04 % described positive emotions regarding the internal environment and 5.96 % described negative emotions regarding the internal environment . These results demonstrated that the main sentiment expressed in these financial reports was about internal information disclosure , mainly good news about corporate performance . Compared with the internal disclosure , the description of the external environment revealed much more emotion that is negative .
 The CSR score data was taken from www.hexun.com . Control variables included the ROE , BM ratio , and company size , which were obtained from the China Stock Market & Accounting Research ( CSMAR ) database . The empirical data set consisted of 16 companies ( 000002 Vanke , 600050 China Unicom , 600028 SINOPEC , 601857 CNPC , 600104 SAIC Motor , 000800 FAW CAR , 000927 TJ FAW , 000572 HaiMa Motor , 601607 Shanghai Pharma , 000538 Yunnan Baiyao , 000423 DEEJ , 600085 TongRenTang , 000651 GREE , 600690 Haier , 600839 Sichuan Changhong , and 000016 KONKA A ) in various industries over a period of 2 years , 2012 and 2013 . Based on the object library we built and emotional tendencies classified in the above sections , we calculated the financial reports ’ sentiment value of each category using Models 1–6 .
 Table 5 presents the descriptive statistics for our sample . The units of the CSR and Size are obviously different from the other variables , so we used the log value of these 2 variables for the regression .
 Table 6 shows the experiment results , among which Model 5 demonstrates a statistical significance between the CSR score and financial report sentiment based on the categories of the PESTEL , and Porter ’s Five Forces , Primary Activities and Support Activities . It outperformed the other models . The signs of the 4 variables ’ coefficients were consistent with the aforementioned statistical results . When preparing a financial report , managers express positive emotions in accordance with Porter ’s Five Forces and Support Activities , which show the company ’s opportunities and strengths . Managers may also complain about the threat from the macro environment and weakness of the Primary Activities .
 Based on Model 5 , we calculated the predicted values for the CSR scores . The comparison between predicted values and true values of the CSR scores is plotted as Fig . 2 , which shows a consistent trend .
 Milton Friedman , the noted economist , argued that the primary responsibility of managers is to maximize shareholder wealth . However , any director or senior manager who believes that acting for the exclusive benefit of its shareholders will lead to long - term success and satisfactory corporate governance is mistaken . It is often forgotten that Friedman also mentioned that this pursuit of shareholder wealth should be “ within the rules ” .
 In the real world , ignoring stakeholders ’ interests will result in poor performance and could even result in corporate bankruptcy . Based on the Stakeholder Theory , an organization ’s success depends on the successful management of all the relationships that the organization has with its stakeholders . These stakeholders include not just shareholders ( for corporate entities ) , but also other parties who could be affected by the operations of an entity , such as its employees , competitors , customers , suppliers , lenders , government , community , and environment . Paying attention to a broad range of stakeholders is important from a moral or ethical perspective and the survival of a firm depends on the management of a range of relationships .
 This research contributes to stakeholders ’ comprehensive decision - making ability in regards to corporate accountability . The attitude of a manager towards CSR interacts with the emotional tendency expressed in the financial report . Stakeholders can learn more about a company ’s sustainable accountability through the sentiment analysis of its financial report . Companies can also do better by paying attention to CSR and by pursuing sustainable corporate governance .
 We developed an object library for financial reports that consisted of 20 categories based on strategic analysis . Regression models of the CSR score and financial report sentiment of different categories demonstrate that when financial report sentiment is classified into 4 categories based on the PESTEL model , Porter ’s Five Forces model , the Primary Activities and Support Activities , it adds statistically significant explanatory power to the CSR score . The result is transferrable to different industries . In the future , we can apply the method for creating an object library of financial reports to other financial disclosures .
 National Natural Science Foundation of China ( No . 71371144 , 71601119 , 71771177 ) .
 Yuan Song collected data and wrote the main paper . Hongwei Wang gave the main idea and improvement suggestions . Maoran Zhu contributed to the experiment analysis . All the authors read and approved the final manuscript .
 Yuan Song is a PhD candidate at School of Economics and Management , Tongji University , Shanghai 200,092 , China . Her research interests include corporate governance , auditing and textual analysis .
 Hongwei Wang is currently a professor of Information Systems in the School of Economics and Management at Tongji University , China . His research interests include sentiment analysis , social media , and business intelligence .
 Maoran Zhu is an associate professor of Management Science in the School of Economics and Management at Tongji University , China . His research interests include E - commerce and business intelligence .
 Holme R , Watts P ( 2000 ) , Corporate Social Responsibility : Making good business sense , World Business Council on Sustainable Development . http://www.ceads.org.ar/downloads/Making%20good%20business%20sense.pdf . Accessed Feb 2018 .


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 Her hire follows Lionsgate 's recently partnering with Liberty Global and Discovery Communications after the two conglomerates aligned with John Malone each purchased a 3.4 percent stake in the studio . Lee oversaw legal affairs for distribution at Sony Pictures , most recently as senior vp legal affairs .
 " Audrey ’s corporate legal experience at the major studio level and fluency with intellectual property matters and content distribution worldwide make her a tremendous asset to the Lionsgate team , " Levin , chief strategic officer and general counsel , said Thursday in a statement .
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 Washington , DC , Oct. 09 , 2018 ( GLOBE NEWSWIRE ) -- Grocery shopping is about more than just putting food on the table . It ’s a daily opportunity to create the kind of world we want to live in . This October , Fairtrade America , the Marine Stewardship Council , Non - GMO Project , and the Equitable Food Initiative invite shoppers to celebrate sustainably - produced foods .
 More than 60 percent of Americans believe businesses can be key drivers for social and environmental change , according to a study from Cone Communications . Bringing sustainably - produced goods to market is a big part of that . Americans are concerned about the planet ’s future and see companies as part of the solution .
 Sixty - six percent of shoppers are willing to pay more for sustainably - produced goods ; that number jumps to 71 percent among millennials , according to Nielsen .
 Nearly half of Americans avoid buying products with genetically - modified ingredients , according to a recent study from the Hartman Group .
 “ Equality and fairness , good labor conditions , and clean , simple ingredients are high priorities . People want to make the right choice , not just for themselves and their families , but for farmers , workers and the planet , ” said Bryan Lew , Chief Operating Officer at Fairtrade America .
 Certification labels provide shoppers with a reliable shopping shortcut so they can spend less time navigating grocery store shelves and more time enjoying sustainably - produced food that ’s better for all .
 Third - party certification or verification assures that an independent organization has audited and checked that a company is following set rules – whether it ’s fair trade , responsible fishing , GMO avoidance or better treatment of workers .
 Everyone has a right to know what is in their food and where it comes from . Celebrate sustainably - produced food all October and throughout the year .
 Non - GMO Project Verified – The Non - GMO Project Standard is North America ’s most rigorous and most reliable standard for GMO avoidance , set apart by its transparency , trustworthiness , and third - party status . The only way to truly avoid consuming GMOs is to Look for the Butterfly . Where found : Dairy and meat products , fruit and vegetables , snack foods , vitamins and supplements , oils , and more .
 To learn more about these certifications and continue the conversation visit , www.fairtr.de/TruthBehindLabels .


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